| 4.5 superb |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Accept Restless And Wild |
| Accept Balls To The Wall |
| Acid Bath Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| Aeon Zen Ephemera |
| This is definitely one of the finer prog metal releases of recent times, and certainly of this year so far too. Each song more or less sounds different to the other, and the way in which instrumental performance is co-ordinated in songs like "The Entity", "Life?" and "Rebuild the Ruins" reminds me (in a good way) of Myrath's debut album. |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic |
| Akercocke Antichrist |
| Akercocke Choronzon |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Alice Cooper Killer |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 |
| This was one tasty album. So much going in but it's a thrilling listen from start to finish. |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Angel Witch Angel Witch |
| Anglagard Hybris |
| Angra Angels Cry |
| Angra Temple of Shadows |
| Angra Holy Land |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Annihilator Alice In Hell |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Anvil Metal On Metal |
| Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi! |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atheist Piece Of Time |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Avatarium Avatarium |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Anvil Hail Death |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Blackfield Blackfield |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Blood Ceremony Living With The Ancients |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny And Mutation |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Borknagar Borknagar |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Aske |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Candlemass Nightfall |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Cathedral The Last Spire |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval |
| Cirith Ungol King of the Dead |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Coroner Grin |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Coroner No More Color |
| Coroner Punishment for Decadence |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cream Fresh Cream |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cult Of Fire Ascetic Meditation Of Death |
| One thing that made made fall instantly in love with this album is its very spiritual energy flowing throughout. You can feel the amount of effort being put into the production of the album and it's simply almost too good to be true. The mixture of evocative, sometimes atmospheric black metal and beautifully integrated eastern influences feels like the perfect musical combination. To be honest, the band's harsher side reminds me of both Borknagar and Burzum, whilst the eastern influences give the band freedom to roam in their own musical world. One of 2013's best extreme metal albums? For me, definitely. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Danzig Danzig |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Deicide The Stench Of Redemption |
| Destruction Release From Agony |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Diamond Head Lightning To The Nations |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Dismember Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
Dodheimsgard going out on a limb here. Sounds far removed from anything I heard on A Umbra
Omega but with more melody and harmony, especially in the vocal prowess on "Abyss Perihelion
Transition". Like with every other album, it's going to prove divisive (even amongst
experimental black metal fans), but it's truly a well-earned grower.
Edit: Had to push this up to a 4.5. Just had to. |
| DorDeDuh Har |
| Draconian The Burning Halo |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition |
| Earthless From the Ages |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| currently writing a review for this album. I'm literally drunk with excitement. |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Epica Design Your Universe |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epica The Phantom Agony |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fields of the Nephilim Elizium |
| Such a hauntingly beautiful album, and it actually stays with you hours after you've stopped listening to the album itself. It's that memorable. Not just that, but McCoy's voice on here is incredible. Melodic overtones and gothic atmosphere make this one of the albums of the 90's for me. |
| Fields of the Nephilim Mourning Sun |
| Fish Raingods with Zippos |
| Its always refreshing for me to hear a Fish album, especially as he is one of my favourite solo musicians. This album has in particular so much variety its almost impossible to note every little thing that makes his music stand out so. The last six songs (contributing to a 25 minute opus called 'Plague of Ghosts') are maybe drawn out a little too long, but not enough to take away from the core values of this promising album by Fish. I sometimes wonder whether marillion or Fish is actually better. |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace |
| Focus Focus 3 |
| Focus Hamburger Concerto |
| Focus Focus II (a.k.a. Moving Waves) |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Foscor Les Irreals Visions |
| Truly a fantastic album, and certainly one of 2017's finest albums. In a way it reminds me of Novembre's excellent "Ursa" record from last year, if only because of how passionate and otherworldly the listening experience feels. That said, the uplifting vocals and unique rhythm section work here have such an alluring charm, it's hard to detach yourself from the soundscape. Every song has its own little twist, but Les Irreals Visions details a transcendent style throughout which is hard for many bands to master. Hard to pick a highlight here, but I would say that "Altars", "Encenalls de Mort" and "Espectres al Cau" are some of the best examples of what Foscor do best on this album. |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free |
| Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Gentle Giant Octopus |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gong You |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time |
| Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill |
| Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido |
| Hawkwind Levitation |
| Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I |
| Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| Iced Earth Night Of The Stormrider |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immolation Here in After |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immolation Unholy Cult |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs |
| In the Woods... Strange In Stereo |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods |
| Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill |
| This album is thoroughly brilliant from start to finish. The swathes of Gothic keyboards, progressive song structures, menacing vocal delivery, beautiful guitar work, it's all tightly packed into this 50-minute package-the sound of which is right up my alley. Sure, that may sound fanboyish, but I genuinely love this album having heard it three times already. It simply gets better and better. Highlights of this album could be any song really, but for me personally it's "Letter XIX" and "An Acousmatic Guardian" (Had to look up the definition of "Acousmatic") that really effectively convey this band's best musical talents to the listener. |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith |
| Moondog Moondog |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave |
| Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nightwish Wishmaster |
| Nile Those Whom The Gods Detest |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Owl (DEU) Orion Fenix |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Repulsion Horrified |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Genuinely thought that this was a novel when I saw the title, but later found out that it was a new album by Steven wilson. I've no idea what my expectations for this are, because every album he's ever been involved in is interesting in some way. I think he was talking about doing a new PT album too, so this year he's being a busy, busy bee. Like every year. |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| I don't know what this album is exactly, but it's blowing my mind. |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue |
| The Cult Electric |
| The Cult Sonic Temple |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The Enid In The Region of the Summer Stars |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
| The Groundhogs Hogwash |
| The Reticent The Oubliette |
One of the greatest prog metal concept albums I've heard recently. It's an emotional
conceptual journey through the life (and eventual death) of a Dementia patient and lyrically
really hits home to those who have known someone to suffer from the disease. It's constructed
and performed impeccably well, but it goes without saying you should pay as much attention to
the lyrics as the music in order to get the full experience. |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia |
| Had to bump this up to a 4.5 eventually. Several isolated listens of this album whilst driving (mostly during night when traffic is virtually non-existent and the absence of light grows fonder), and I have to say it's confirmed my belief that The Ruins of Beverast has become one of my favourite black metal bands. Every song on this album is different from the rest, and whilst that's not saying too much given there's only six songs here, it's still a moot point. |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| Therion Vovin |
| Thurisaz Re-Incentive |
| Thy Catafalque Meta |
| Well now, here's an album that practically blows every other record of 2016 out of the water. Well at least it does for me. Utterly fantastic from start to finish. Full of creativity, versatility and finesse without ever confusing or frustrating its listener. I could pick any song from here and hail it as a highlight, but I think the third track (I know, too lazy to write the song titles out) and that monstrously progressive 20-minute behemoth both take the cake. I doubt I'll hear another album with the same replay value or timeless quality as this in all honesty, but that's just my opinion. |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
| Venenum Trance of Death |
| In the words of Varg Vikernes when he decided to cover Bathory's "War"...r'This is, huh, wow'.rNo but seriously, this is fantastic work. One of, if not the best extreme metal record of the year so far. |
| W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P. |
| While Heaven Wept Suspended at Aphelion |
| How this album has such a low rating is beyond me. It's a beautiful progressive metal album which is certainly one of the best of the year. |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Xerath III |
| 4.0 excellent |
| (EchO) Below the Cover of Clouds |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
| 1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue |
| Aara En Ergô Einai |
| Aara Triade I: Eos |
| Aara Triade II: Hemera |
| Aara Triade III: Nyx |
| Abadir Mutate |
| Abhorrent Decimation Miasmic Mutation |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Aborted Engineering the Dead |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture |
| Aborted RetroGore |
| Abstracter Abominion |
| Absu Absu |
| Absu Abzu |
| Absu Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L. |
| Absu The Sun Of Tiphareth |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| Acathexis Acathexis |
| Acathexis Immerse |
| Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death |
| Accept Metal Heart |
| Another great 80's album from Accept. They really do have a metal heart... |
| Accept Blood Of The Nations |
| Acheron Kult des Hasses |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops |
| Adimiron Et Liber Eris |
| Aenaon Mnemosyne |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith |
| Aerosmith Rocks |
| Aerosmith Draw The Line |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agathodaimon Chapter III |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Akhlys House of the Black Geminus |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| Alice Cooper Dragontown |
| Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid |
| Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy |
| Alkerdeel Slonk |
| All About Eve All About Eve |
| Allan Holdsworth The Sixteen Men of Tain |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis |
| One of the best progressive metal albums of the year. In a lot of ways this reminds me of Persephone's latest full-length but with more engaging musicianship and some riffs to lick your lips to. This may be the band's best. |
| Almyrkvi Umbra |
| Almyrkvi Pupil of the Searing Maelstrom |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| Amiensus Abreaction |
| Amnutseba Emanatism |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amon Duul II Yeti |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| An Autumn Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love |
| Beautiful album, very atmospheric, and epic in all the right places. It's certainly lifted my spirits that's for sure, although that's probably not what the band intended when making this album. Definitely one of the better albums I've listened to from this genre for a long, long while. |
| An Autumn The Long Goodbye |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus |
| Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas |
| Anachronism Meanders |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema The Crestfallen |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures |
| Angelus Apatrida Hidden Evolution |
| Very solid, very consistent thrash metal album which will surely turn out to be one of 2015's stronger metal releases. No particular highlights here for me stand out because there's isn't one which is filler material. I do, however, think the album has a very fitting closer, even if a little long. Musicianship is solid, and vocals are nicely versatile, though they do at times remind me of Rob Jukes in his Exodus period. |
| Angra Rebirth |
| Angra Aurora Consurgens |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly |
| Annihilator King of the Kill |
| Anthrax Spreading The Disease |
| Anthrax Persistence Of Time |
| Anthrax Worship Music |
| Anthrax Sound Of White Noise |
| Antichrist (SWE) Sinful Birth |
| Antropomorphia Merciless Savagery |
| Anvil Forged In Fire |
| Anvil Hard 'N' Heavy |
| Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures |
| Apparition Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State |
| Arabrot Who Do You Love |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arch Enemy Stigmata |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal |
| A progressive metal album that doesn't try too hard? I'll take it. |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Archive Controlling Crowds |
| Ard Untouched By Fire |
| Happy to say this band's grown on me quite a lot, especially having seen them live last year. This album feels more fluid and cohesive than the debut effort, but the basics of the band's sound remains intact. |
| Area Arbeit Macht Frei |
| Arkona (RUS) Vozrozhdenie |
| Arkona (RUS) Vo Slavu Velikim! |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu |
| Arkona (RUS) Khram |
| Armagh Exclamation Po!nt |
| Don't know what compels me to this album so much, it just feels warm and accessible enough to keep me wanting to replay. Musicianship is really seamless and even the vocals, as quiet as they are, somehow add to the experience. IT's an album that shouldn't excite me as much as it does. |
| Aronious Irkalla |
| Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum I: Vápn ok viðr |
| Arstidir Lifsins Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir |
| Arstidir Lifsins Aldrlok |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| Artillery By Inheritance |
| Artillery Terror Squad |
| Artillery When Death Comes |
| Artillery My Blood |
| Artillery Penalty by Perception |
| Asagraum Dawn of Infinite Fire |
| Ashen Horde Antimony |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture |
| Astronoid Astronoid |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Atlantean Kodex The Course Of Empire |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age |
| Austere Corrosion of Hearts |
| Autarkh Form in Motion |
| Autopsy All Tomorrow's Funerals |
| Autopsy The Tomb Within |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual |
| Just heard 'Arch cadaver'...sounds pretty solid as always. |
| Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil |
| Ayahuasca (DE) Beneath the Mind |
| I feel like this is what Sepultura should have sounded like post-Roots era. rOn a more serious note, what a barnstormer of a late 2018 release this is. I only found out about it a few weeks ago but damn, those Subterranean grooves are infectious and the whole hour-long piece is effectively monstrous in its delivery. I could care less for the brief deathcore flourishes here and there, but it's a generally well-written debut effort full of vigour and menace. This band is one to watch in the near future, that's for sure. |
| Bacamarte Depois Do Fim |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES |
| Baring Teeth The Path Narrows |
| Barishi Old Smoke |
| Savage, unrelenting, yet also hypnotic and draws you in with real menace. The final track is a damn good example of this band at its collective instrumental peak. |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness First |
| Baroness Second |
| Baroness First & Second |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| BARST The Western Lands |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Nordland I |
| Bathory Blood on Ice |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Bauhaus In The Flat Field |
| Bauhaus Mask |
| Bauhaus Burning From The Inside |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behexen The Poisonous Path |
| This is definitely among the better black metal albums I've heard so far in 2016. Excellent sound, and some outstanding guitar work. It's not that versatile, but it sure does deliver the goods like few others. |
| Bekor Qilish The Flesh of a New God |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance |
| Belphegor Lucifer Incestus |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Beneath (IS) The Barren Throne |
| A very consistent, powerful death metal album. Some of the riffs may sound the same towards the end, but the technical solo work and solid instrumental performance makes for an excellent all-round impression. my personal highlights are "Chalice" and "Mass Extinction Codex". |
| Beneath (IS) Ephemeris |
| Benediction The Grand Leveller |
| Benediction Transcend the Rubicon |
| Benediction Killing Music |
| Bess of Bedlam Dance until the Crimes End |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum |
| Billy Idol Billy Idol |
| Billy Idol Rebel Yell |
| Binah Phobiate |
| Biohazard Mata Leao |
| Biohazard State of the World Address |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars |
| Black Curse Burning in Celestial Poison |
| Absolute rattler of an album. 11-minute songs that really don't feel like 11-minute songs. |
| Black Label Society 1919 Eternal |
| Black Label Society Mafia |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black |
| Black Label Society Sonic Brew |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry |
| Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition |
| Black Trip Goin' Under |
| Blackberry Smoke The Whippoorwill |
| Blackfield Blackfield II |
| Blackfield Blackfield V |
| Blackmore's Night Fires At Midnight |
| Blackmore's Night Ghost Of A Rose |
| Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Blondie Blondie |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat |
| Blondie Plastic Letters |
| Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony |
| Blood Red Throne Affiliated With The Suffering |
| Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral |
| Bloodshot Dawn Demons |
| Bloody Hammers Spiritual Relics |
| Very solid album, and particularly raises all the good points of a genre at risk of sounding outdated. The keyboards make songs such as 'At the well of the Nazareth' and 'The source' all the more exciting and evil-sounding to listen to, whereas the bass-heavy 'The transit begins' and 'Shiver' obviously favour heavy guitar sounds a la Pentagram (in the 80s), making for a rather unique sound. |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents Of Fortune |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres |
| Blue Oyster Cult Cultösaurus Erectus |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire Of Unknown Origin |
| Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos |
| Blues Pills Blues Pills |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Bob Catley The Tower |
| Bob Catley When Empires Burn |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Bolt Thrower War Master |
| Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Borknagar Empiricism |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain |
| Borknagar Quintessence |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course |
| Borknagar Epic |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Boston Boston |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Botanist Ecosystem |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| A very different sound compared to what we've heard from BMTH in the not too distant past. In particular the production seems a lot more atmospheric and Sykes' vocals seem to have more of a range than usual. There are a lot of songs on here that I could say are the band's best: 'The house of wolves', 'Empire (let them sing)','Shadow Moses' and 'Crooked young', the latter of which making for a very nice sound using symphonic sounds and consequently giving off a classical feel. If this is the direction the band are heading in, I have no doubt that I will become a bigger fan than ever before. |
| Broken Hope Omen of Disease |
| Excellent album. Some very brutal and sometimes technical death metal here, though you have to try hard to find variation in some aspects of the band's sound. The vocals and drum rhythms are more or less the same all the way through, but the guitar and bass work is extremely well-executed, specifically on 'Ghastly', the title track and 'The docking dead'. I didn't realize this band were around for as long as they have been either. |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident Of Birth |
| Bruce Dickinson Tyranny Of Souls |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Burzum Belus |
| Burzum Fallen |
| California Breed California Breed |
| Camel Camel |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Camel A Nod And A Wink |
| Camel Rajaz |
| Camel Rain Dances |
| Camel Breathless |
| Camel Nude |
| Camel Harbour Of Tears |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams |
| Candlemass Candlemass |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands |
| Candlemass Tales of Creation |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale |
| Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night |
| Carcass Tools of the Trade |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Carnophage Matter of a Darker Nature |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium |
| Cathedral The Guessing Game |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma |
| Celeste Animale(s) |
| Cellar Darling The Spell |
| This band has come on leaps and bounds since the fairly lackluster debut. Consistent songwriting, progressive musicianship, beautiful inclusion of folk instrumentation (the brilliance of that mid-section during "Death", for example) and Anna Murphy's vocal delivery is spot on. The band also kill it live, as proven by their support slot to Katatonia earlier this year. |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium |
| Cephalic Carnage Exploiting Dysfunction |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty |
| Ch'ahom Knots of Abhorrence |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chat Pile Cool World |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| Chthonic 靈魄之界 9th Empyrean |
| Chthonic 永劫輪迴 Relentless Recurrence |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| Cinderella Long Cold Winter |
| Cinderella Night Songs |
| Circle Terminal |
| Cirith Ungol Paradise Lost |
| Cirith Ungol One Foot in Hell |
| Cirith Ungol Dark Parade |
| Cistvaen At Light's Demise |
| Civerous Maze Envy |
| Cloak of Altering Zero Devil |
| Cloud Rat Threshold |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| Clutch Clutch |
| Clutch The Elephant Riders |
| Clutch Robot Hive / Exodus |
| Cognizance Malignant Dominion |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky |
| Condor (NOR) Unstoppable Power |
| Confessor Condemned |
| Conjurer Mire |
| Conjurer Pathos |
| Constellatia Magisterial Romance |
| Construct of Lethe A Kindness Dealt In Venom |
| Contemplator Morphose |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Cormorant Diaspora |
| Coroner R.I.P. |
| Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood |
| Corrosion of Conformity Blind |
| Corrosion of Conformity America's Volume Dealer |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance |
| Cosmic Jaguar El Era Del Jaguar |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers |
| Costin Chioreanu The Quest For A Morning Star |
| Couch Slut You Could Do It Tonight |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phalluste |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile |
| Craven Idol Forked Tongues |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Cream Wheels of Fire |
| Crestfallen Dusk Crestfallen Dusk |
| Crimson Shadows Kings Among Men |
| Crom Dubh Heimweh |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Crowbar Broken Glass |
| Crowbar Crowbar |
| Crowbar Equilibrium |
| Crowbar Life's Blood For The Downtrodden |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand |
| Cruachan Blood on the Black Robe |
| Cruachan The Morrigan's Call |
| Cruciamentum Obsidian Refractions |
| Cryptic Brood Necrotic Flesh Bacteria |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus |
| The best bits of Skaldic Curse, the avant-garde mannerisms of mid-era Gorguts and the rabid acceleration of Vektor? Oh yes please. |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg |
| Csejthe Reminiscence |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| D.R.I. Crossover |
| D.R.I. Dirty Rotten |
| D.R.I. 4 of a Kind |
| D.R.I. Dealing with It! |
| Daevid Allen Good Morning! |
| Danzig Deth Red Sabaoth |
| Danzig 6:66 Satan's Child |
| Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World |
| Dark Funeral Dark Funeral |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Dark Millennium Acid River |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Dawn of Ouroboros Velvet Incandescence |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| This album is a breath of fresh air within post-metal AND progressive metal. A well-realized concept fulfilled through vibrant and versatile musicianship. |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Angel Frolic Through the Park |
| Death Angel Act III |
| Death Angel The Art of Dying |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood |
| Death Grips The Powers That B |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death |
| Death Karma The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I |
| Death. Void. Terror. To the Great Monolith II |
| Murkiest release of the year so far. Yes, we're only into the second month so such a statement seems daft, but it'll be hard to discover many albums that reach this level of menace. Takes a while to get used to and it's definitely an album to hear with earphones. Outside distraction will simply deviate your attention too easily. |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Deathstars Synthetic Generation |
| Deathstars Night Electric Night |
| Deathstars Termination Bliss |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Deceased As the Weird Travel On |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction |
| Deceased Fearless Undead Machines |
| Decoherence Unitarity |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Deep Purple Shades Of Deep Purple |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple |
| Deep Purple Come Taste The Band |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers |
| Deep Purple Bananas |
| Deep Purple Rapture Of The Deep |
| Deep Purple Now What?! |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Def Leppard Pyromania |
| Defacement Duality |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Gore |
| Degial Predator Reign |
| Deicide Legion |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross |
| Deiquisitor Apotheosis |
| Delain Moonbathers |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Demon King Vesania |
| Demonstealer The Propaganda Machine |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| Excellent album, though it took me a while to get into it. I think it's because of the first two songs, which I thought at first were a little too long for their own good, but then the rest of the album automatically impressed me and kept me hooked. With the exception of the brilliant final song, I prefer the two shorter tracks ("Einkehr" and "Verbund") to the lengthier material, but as a whole this is simply a well-written, well-performed black metal release. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| This band just keeps getting better and better. That final song is gorgeous. |
| Desecrator Subconscious Release |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destroyer 666 Wildfire |
| Destruction Infernal Overkill |
| Destruction Sentence Of Death |
| Destruction Eternal Devastation |
| Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose |
| Destruction The Antichrist |
| Destruction Inventor Of Evil |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Devenial Verdict Blessing of Despair |
| Everyone blowing their top about the new Blood Incantation and yet golden nuggets like this new effort are being slept on. |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs |
| Diabolical Eclipse |
| Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles |
| Parts of this LP are absolutely terrifying, but I guess that's the point. |
| Diamond Head Living On....Borrowed Time |
| Die So Fluid The World Is Too Big For One Lifetime |
| Die So Fluid Spawn Of Dysfunction |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dio The Last In Line |
| Dioramic Supra |
| DIRGE (IN) Dirge |
| Dischordia Triptych |
| Dismember Indecent And Obscene |
| Dismember Dismember |
| Dismember The God That Never Was |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissimulator (CAN) Lower Form Resistance |
| I appreciate how the album cover reminds me of Tetsuo the iron man, as well as the fact that this music absolutely rips. |
| Djevel Tanker som rir natten |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens |
| Dodheimsgard 666 International |
| Dodsrit Nocturnal Will |
| Donny Mccaslin I Want More |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh |
| Down NOLA |
| Down Down III: Over the Under |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Drawn A New World? |
| Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs |
| Dream Evil Dragon Slayer |
| Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation |
| Dreamless Veil Every Limb of the Flood |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You |
| At no point did I feel relaxed listening to this album.r...But I guess that's the point. |
| Drown (US) Subaqueous |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring |
| DSKNT Vacuum γ-Noise Transition |
| Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition |
| Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline |
| Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing |
| Dysgnostic Scar Echoes |
| Dyssebeia Garden of Stillborn Idols |
| Earthside A Dream In Static |
| Eight Bells Legacy Of Ruin |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music |
| Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra |
| Electric Light Orchestra On the Third Day |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue |
| Electric Wizard We Live |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Elvenking Wyrd |
| Elvenking The Pagan Manifesto |
| The album Elvenking should have made after "The Winter Wake" in my opinion. It features everything that made the band's first three albums so unique whilst still retaining a melodic yet epic atmosphere, helped to become more relevant by intricate folk musicianship. My personal highlights are the amazing "King of the Elves" and "Twilight of Magic", though near enough every song on here is just as good in their own particular way. |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun |
| Endalok Ur Draumheimi Viourstyggor |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire |
| Enthroned XES Haereticum |
| I was initially introduced to Enthroned's music via "Carnage in Worlds beyond", so it's fairly unsurprising that this album is musically similar. That's not a bad thing at all however, given how aggressive and powerful the musicianship is. Not only that, but the more complex likes of "Vortex of Confusion" and "Seven Plagues, Seven Wraths" really impressed me. The vocals for me are still weak in comparison but nonetheless suitable for this musical style. |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Entropia (PL) Total |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Erdve Vaitojimas |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath |
| So many brilliant black metal albums released this year, so little time to listen to them.rScrew that, I have ALL the time in the world. |
| Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh |
| Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac |
| Esoctrilihum Döth-Derniàlh |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Eternal Storm A Giant Bound to Fall |
| Once again Transcending Obscurity comes up trumps with a brilliant effort this year. Eternal Storm are an intriguing band considering the line-up links to Persefone, but this stands on its own front with a real promising future. |
| Evergrey The Atlantic |
| Evile Enter the Grave |
| Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican |
| Exocrine Molten Giant |
| Exocrine Maelstrom |
| I don't know what it is about Exocrine, but they make this sub-genre so fun to listen to. And yes, I did enjoy those sax solos. |
| Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine |
| Exodus Tempo of the Damned |
| Exodus Fabulous Disaster |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition |
| Exploring Birdsong Dancing in the Face of Danger |
| Reminds me of a gentler version of Oceans of Slumber but with increasingly hook-laden pop sensibilities, that don't err on the side of too much cheese. An interesting amalgam of inspirations. |
| Extra Life The Sacred Vowel |
| Extreme III Sides To Every Story |
| From start to finish, this is an undoubtedly ambitious concept album which, if not immediately successful, was for Extreme a career-defining piece of work. Split into three parts, the album explores and covers a lot of musical ground. The first part has the most in common with Extreme's earlier material (but is still very reliable given the band's hard-working musical ethic), the mid-section is experimental and proves Bettencourt is more than just a talented guitarist, and the last three songs verge on progressive rock territory. It's a big album to take in, and will require more than one listen to enhance the whole experience, but is certainly a rewarding listen by the end. |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti |
| Exumer Rising from the Sea |
| Eye of Nix Ligeia |
| Prophecy Productions keep putting out unique releases this year, and Eye of Nix's latest another one. Alluring vocals and really adventurous songwriting coupled with one of the cleanest albeit vicious rhythm sections I've heard in a black metal-related release all year, and yet the album still takes a few listens to truly get your head around. In a way it reminds me of what The Third and the Mortal were doing in the mid-90s but with more menace and heaviness to boot. |
| Eyehategod Dopesick |
| Fabricant Drudge To The Thicket |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Faith No More King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Falkenbach Tiurida |
| Falkenbach ...En Their Medh Riki Fara... |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fange Pourrissoir |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian |
| Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood |
| Fathomless Ritual Hymns for the Lesser Gods |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Felled The Intimate Earth |
| Fellwarden Wreathed in Mourncloud |
| A truly refreshing album. The production is ideal-seemingly shrouded in this hazy, cloudy sound but which vividly brings to mind a slow, graceful stroll alongside a foggy coastline (or alongside the lake district, apparently a direct source of songwriting inspiration for the album). It may be simplistic and straightforward in its approach, but it does everything just right and offers one of the calmest albeit seamless atmospheric black metal albums of the year so far. |
| Fen Winter |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Feral Light Psychic Contortions |
| Finnr's Cane Elegy |
| Finntroll Jaktens tid |
| Finntroll Nattfödd |
| Finntroll Nifelvind |
| Finsmoonth Affliction |
| Finsterforst Zerfall |
| This album reminds me of Moonsorrow in all the right ways. Plus, one of the songs are 32 minutes long and it really doesn't feel like 32 minutes. |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Firewind Between Heaven And Hell |
| Firtan Ethos |
| Fish 13th Star |
| Fish Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors |
| Fish Internal Exile |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia |
| Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed |
| Fluisteraars/Turia De Oord |
| Fohn Condescending |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil |
| Forbidden Twisted into Form |
| Foretoken Triumphs |
| Forteresse Thèmes pour la Rébellion |
| Frail Body Artificial Bouquet |
| Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo |
| Frank Zappa Joe's Garage |
| Free Tons of Sobs |
| Free Fire and Water |
| Fuath I |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Obsidian Katabasis |
| Gaerea Coma |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant |
| Gamma Ray Majestic |
| Garbage Not Your Kind of People |
| Garbage Version 2.0 |
| Garbage Garbage |
| Garganjua Toward the Sun |
| Gary Moore Still Got The Blues |
| Gary Moore Dirty Fingers |
| Gary Moore Victims Of The Future |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Genital Shame Chronic Illness Wish |
| Wasn't sure what to make of the name of this project but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the type of experimental black metal that made Victory Over the sun's latest so damn good. |
| Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory |
| Gentle Giant Gentle Giant |
| Gentle Giant Three Friends |
| Gentle Giant Free Hand |
| George Kollias Invictus |
| George Thorogood and the Destroyers George Thorogood and the Destroyers |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Gigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence |
| Gigan Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus |
| Giver Sculpture Of Violence |
| Glassing From the Other Side of the Mirror |
| Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls |
| Nice album. I particularly like the harshness of the vocals and the musicianship here often accompanies those vocals in the right sort of way. The mixture of blackened riffs and a southern rock tone throughout makes for an interesting sound, though at times this can wear a little thin if played on a repetitive basis. That said, the album is generally very consistent and in my opinion never quite lets up. |
| Godflesh Decline and Fall |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godflesh Pure |
| Godflesh Post Self |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Golden Earring Contraband |
| Golden Earring Moontan |
| Golden Earring Eight Miles High |
| Gong Expresso II |
| Gong Flying Teapot |
| Gong Angel's Egg |
| Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso) |
| Gong Shamal |
| Gong Acid Motherhood |
| Gong I See You |
| Gong Rejoice! I’m Dead! |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Grails Chalice Hymnal |
| Grand Funk Railroad Phoenix |
| Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band |
| Grand Funk Railroad On Time |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk |
| Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home |
| Grand Funk Railroad Survival |
| Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk |
| Grave Digger Excalibur |
| Grave Digger The Grave Digger |
| Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage |
| Gravesend Gowanus Death Stomp |
| Graywave Dancing in the Dust |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Grim Reaper Fear No Evil |
| Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods |
| Grimoire À La Lumière des Cendres |
| Grinding Fortune Itch Relief |
| Groza The Redemptive End |
| Gryphon Red Queen To Gryphon Three |
| Guhts Regeneration |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| GWAR Ragnarok |
| Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse |
| Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens |
| Haken Affinity |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Halford Resurrection |
| Halford Crucible |
| Hannes Grossmann Apophenia |
| It's like a less frenzied version of last year's impeccable "Liquid Anatomy" album, but with just as much of a "there's a party going on in my ears" impression.rI mean, it rules. |
| Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks,Saigon Shakes,Hanoi Rocks |
| Hate Forest The Most Ancient Ones |
| Hate Forest Purity |
| Hate Forest Battlefields |
| Hate Forest Sorrow |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia |
| Hawk Eyes Everything Is Fine |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space |
| Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm |
| Heart Dreamboat Annie |
| Hegemone We Disappear |
| Heilung Ofnir |
| This is clearly an album that is supposed to be experience, not merely listened to. The whole thing is bizarre to those who have never really heard anything related to neofolk, ambient or dark traditional Nordic music, but giving it a chance may spurn you on to those styles. That said, it's a lot harder to get into than, say, Wardruna or The Moon and the Nightspirit. Several listens needed. |
| Heilung Futha |
| Heilung Drif |
| Helga (SWE) Wrapped in Mist |
| Hell (UK) Human Remains |
| Hell (UK) Curse and Chapter |
| Hell Poemer Arcane Mysteries of Dead Ancestors |
| Hellhammer Satanic Rites |
| Hellish Form Deathless |
| Hellish Outcast Stay of Execution |
| Helloween The Time Of The Oath |
| Helloween Walls Of Jericho |
| Helloween Better Than Raw |
| Helloween The Dark Ride |
| Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way |
| Hexvessel Kindred |
| Hexvessel Polar Veil |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Hissing Hypervirulence Architecture |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Horn Retrograd |
| Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part II |
| Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I |
| Hostsol Länge Leve Döden |
| Humavoid Lidless |
| What was missing from both Ithaca's latest release and most of Jinjer's discography, is basically on this album, amplified by some frenzied vocal work which strangely reminds me of Ram-Zet in their prime, and all finished off with manic keyboard/synth work. A lot of ideas dancing about, and if you don't like djenty riffs then at least part of this album will irritate you to no end...but this is still a brilliantly fresh debut in my mind. |
| Huntsmen Mandala of Fear |
| Sublime stuff, and yet it's also very laidback, fluent, and manages to make a gargantuan 80-minute runtime seem to fly by for all the intrinsic musicianship and progression happening here. Many songs aspire to truly great crescendos, often uplifting and warming but never in a way which overeggs the proverbial pudding, instead, the band rely on their individual talents and that well-honed songwriting to produce some damn fine post/sludge metal. One of the more unique releases of its kind this year. |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival |
| iamthemorning Lighthouse |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Iced Earth Horror Show |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| Illustrations In Vain |
| Illyria Illyria |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect |
| Enjoyably consistent and solid mix of black metal-esque vocals, energetic instrumentation and just really nice progression from one song to the next. I'd never heard of this band before today, so it was a real nice surprise. |
| Immortal Bird Sin Querencia |
| Reminds me of the latest Knoll album in a good way, albeit with a slightly more polished production. Also borders more on the punky/hardcore side of metal at times, a versatile touch much appreciated. |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| Imperium Dekadenz Procella Vadens |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Infant Island Obsidian Wreath |
| Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution) |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) |
| Ingested The Level Above Human |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Inter Arma New Heaven |
| IQ The Wake |
| ISON Aurora |
| Beautifully haunting. Considering the guest musicians and vocalists here, the album is full of life and has this energetic presence which listeners absorb from the very first song. |
| ISON Stars & Embers |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof |
| Jambinai ONDA |
| James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase |
| Jonathan Hulten Chants from Another Place |
| Really pleasant surprise for me this was. I was already a fan of Tribulation but didn't quite catch on to what Hulten was doing in his spare time, and the result is this: A beautiful, atmospheric acoustic voyage through several different musical styles which ensures no song ever oversteps its mark. Short but definitely sweet, this is one of the more unique non-metal albums I've come across since 2020 started. |
| Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle |
| Kaipa In the Wake of Evolution |
| Kairon IRSE! Ujubasajuba |
| Kaleikr Heart of Lead |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite |
| Karybdis Samsara |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike |
| Kekal Envisaged |
| Khemmis Deceiver |
| Killing Joke MMXII |
| Klone Here Comes The Sun |
| Klone Meanwhile |
| Knifeplay Animal Drowning |
| Knoll As Spoken |
| Kosmokrator First Step Towards Supremacy |
| Krallice Inorganic Rites |
| Kreator Violent Revolution |
| Krisiun Black Force Domain |
| Pretty awesome album. The solos here are definitely the album's highlight. |
| Kurokuma Born of Obsidian |
| La Fin The Endless Inertia |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm |
| Sometimes simple is good. And this is very good. very good indeed. |
| Lanayah I'm Picking Lights in a Field |
| A strange one this. I'm seeing tags for blackgaze and post-hardcore but it's both those things and neither of things at the same time. So much going on in this release and yet there's a real charm to it throughout. |
| Laster Andermans Mijne |
| Probably their most accessible sounding album, and somehow all the better for it. The melodies and grooves are so memorable here but result in what is mostly a fluent album, one which certainly warrants repeated listens if only to get you dancing time and time again. Probably. |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight |
| Laudare Requiem |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Les Claypool's Duo de Twang Four Foot Shack |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Light Dweller Lucid Offering |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula |
| Locanda Delle Fate Forse le lucciole non si amano più |
| Lotus Thief Gramarye |
| Lucifer Black Mass |
| Luna's Call Void |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| Lust Hag Lust Hag |
| Lo-fi with plenty of atmosphere a damn good bass tone. Awesome job. |
| Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps |
| Lychgate Also Sprach Futura |
| This band continues to go from strength to strength, but I still didn't expect a Lychgate EP to come so soon after arguably the finest Esoteric release yet. Chandler really doesn't settle down does he? |
| Macabre Omen Gods Of War - At War |
| Excellent album. These guys have done a stunning job both musically and conceptually here. Sure, it obviously draws many influences from the likes of Bathory (who doesn't in this sub-genre?), but the way in which atmospheric black metal is fused together with melancholic mood and flourishes of Pagan music simply collaborates for what is an hour of grandiose music. Any song here could be seen as a highlight, but my personal favourites would have to be "From Son to Father" and the epic two-part closer "Alexandros". |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust |
| Madder Mortem Red In Tooth And Claw |
| Magna Carta Cartel The Dying Option |
| Mai Mai Mai Rimorso |
| Maieutiste Veritas |
| Reminds me a lot of Cormorant but with more emphasis on melancholy, the violin work particularly providing a nice classical backdrop for the extreme metal work to flow onto. "Vocat" is a sprawling centrepiece but this album from start to finish is some of the most accessible black metal work I've heard in recent times. |
| Major Parkinson Blackbox |
| Malist Of Scorched Earth |
| Malthusian Across Deaths |
| Mammal Hands Gift From the Trees |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| Marjana Semkina Sirin |
| It's really great to see Marjana spreading her wings outside of iamthemorning, not only the collaboration with Cellar Darling's Anna Murphy but also a serene venture into solo material which honestly could rival any of iamthemorning's releases. The songs here are smooth, intricate but bursting with fresh musical ideas to truly stand out from Marjana's other work. |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis/Belladonna |
| Mary Halvorson Belladonna |
| Mary Halvorson Amaryllis |
| Mastiff Plague |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows) |
| Melechesh Enki |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Messa Belfry |
| Messier 16 iota |
| Messier 16 Death Poems |
| Metal Church The Dark |
| meth. Shame |
| Methchrist Acephalic Thanatocracy |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb |
| Mike Oldfield Ommadawn |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minenwerfer Feuerwalze |
| Minors Abject Bodies |
| Misanthropic Rage Hallucinatory Phenomena |
| Misery Index The Killing Gods |
| Misery Index Rituals of Power |
| Misha Sultan Roots |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Mithras On Strange Loops |
| Mol JORD |
| Mol I/II |
| Monarch (FRA) Sabbracadaver |
| Monolithe Monolithe IV |
| Monolord Rust |
| Monolord No Comfort |
| Monotheist Scourge |
| Monster Magnet Last Patrol |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Moonspell Extinct |
| Morgue Supplier Inevitability |
| Morke Forged in Steel and Love |
| Morwinyon Pristine |
| Motanka Motanka |
| I really enjoyed this. It's a real fresh sound, innovative thanks to the use of those Ukrainian folk instruments and the obvious prog metal influence, but I'm hearing subtle influences from post-rock and post-metal which really help the band in expanding their sound on this debut. One of the finest debuts of the year that's for sure. |
| Mountainscape Atoms Unfurling |
| Mourning Beloveth Rust & Bone |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Nasheim Jord Och Aska |
| Nasum Human 2.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Necrophagia Season of the Dead |
| Necrophagia WhiteWorm Cathedral |
| Necrot Mortal |
| Negative Plane The Pact |
| Negator Gates to the Pantheon |
| Negura Bunget Zău |
| Nekroí Theoí Dead Gods |
| I admit the vocals will prove divisive depending on how you like your death metal, but damn this is still invigorating stuff. There's a wide range of influences-some obvious, some not so-but to me it's a pretty fresh take on a sub-genre that has over the last few years been riddled with a severe lack of motivation. Ones to watch, and definitely one of the most thrilling extreme metal debuts of the year. |
| Nekrofilth Worm Ritual |
| Nekus Death Apophenia |
| Nervosa Agony |
| Nicole Saboune Miman |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| No Spill Blood Eye of Night |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Nullingroots Shrouds of Celeste |
| Nullingroots Take Care |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Nurez Nachtlied |
| Nyktalgia Nyktalgia |
| Obituary Cause of Death |
| Obituary The End Complete |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obituary World Demise |
| Obliterations Poison Everything |
| Obscura Akróasis |
| Obscura Diluvium |
| Obsidian Tongue Volume III |
| Obsidian Tongue The Stone Heart |
| Occultation Silence in the Ancestral House |
| This album has a rich, prominent tone rooted deep in gothic music which continually reminds me of Candlemass' 80s era. For that reason I quite like it, and the way in which this tone is carried out consistently from start to finish makes songs like the brilliant 'The Place Behind the Sky' and slow but dramatic closing title track. The band's name may be pretty obvious as to what one would expect (Is "Occultation" even an actual word?), but they more than make up for this with the musicianship.r |
| Oceans of Slumber Where Gods Fear to Speak |
| Odoacer There the Vultures Will Gather |
| Omega (ITA) Nebra |
| Omega Infinity Solar Spectre |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise |
| Similar in execution to The Reticent's "The Oubliette" release, but in no way a carbon copy. One of 2023's better prog metal releases so far for sure. |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Orange Goblin Thieving From The House Of God |
| Orange Goblin Back From The Abyss |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muuntautuja |
| Our Survival Depends On Us Melting the Ice in the Hearts of Men |
| Introspective doom with vocals that are perhaps too dramatic for some, but reaches for musical inspiration from many different sources. All in all a very interesting full-length effort from the same record label that gave us The Ruins of Beverast. |
| Overkill The Electric Age |
| Overkill White Devil Armory |
| Owl (DEU) Nights in Distortion |
| I was pleasantly surprised with Owl's previous release, the "Orion Fenix" EP which consisted of one experimental doom 20-minute mammoth of a track. The dreamy melodies, seamless transitions and heart-stopping voyages into psychedelic darkness of that particular song are well-rehearsed on this latest full-length, but naturally attracts more conflicting dynamics whilst still trying out new ideas. One of this year's finest and most unique doom metal releases. |
| Pa Vesh En Maniac Manifest |
| Pa Vesh En Martyrs |
| Pagan's Mind Infinity Divine |
| Palace of Worms Cabal |
| Pallas (UK) XXV |
| Pallbearer Heartless |
| Palus Somni Monarch of Dark Matter |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Papangu Lampião Rei |
| Avant-Garde but with enough pizzazz and songwriting cohesion to make most songs truly stand out, I thoroughly enjoyed the musicianship bouncing seamlessly from one idea to the next. |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Penitence Onirique Nature Morte |
| Pentagram (CL) The Malefice |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Persefone Aathma |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Petrale The World Down There |
| Phlebotomized Clouds of Confusion |
| Pijn From Low Beams Of Hope |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| One of the best collaborations I can think of in recent times. The musicianship here is brilliant and even at its heaviest moments the mood is strangely uplifting and each song leaves you feeling refreshed. Please don't let this project be a flash in the pan. |
| Pinkish Black Concept Unification |
| Poison Headache Poison Headache |
| Polymoon Chrysalis |
| Pool Kids Pool Kids |
| Portal Avow |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Prong Rude Awakening |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Publicist UK Forgive Yourself |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third |
| Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts |
| Purson The Circle And The Blue Door |
| Qrixkuor Three Devils Dance |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Raat Enchantment |
| Rannoch Reflections Upon Darkness |
| Rannoch Conflagrations |
| Ratos de Porao Século Sinistro |
| Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens |
| The last track is lush. Whole album in general is very fluent and is a seamless combination of atmospheric black metal at its doomiest and funeral doom at its most beautiful. |
| Red Fang Whales And Leeches |
| Red Snapper Everybody is Somebody |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal |
| Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories |
| Renaissance A Song for All Seasons |
| Renounced Beauty Is A Destructive Angel |
| Another excellent find from Holy Roar records. Yes this is essentially a nostalgia trip to two decades ago when metalcore was making waves in the music industry, but you cannot deny the brilliant songwriting and memorable melodies at work here make for a well-rounded release. These guys should be bigger in the near future. |
| Replicant Infinite Mortality |
| Respire Hiraeth |
| Revocation Revocation |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Rosalie Cunningham Rosalie Cunningham |
| Rosalie Cunningham Two Piece Puzzle |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou |
| Royal Thunder Crooked Doors |
| Rudimentary Peni Death Church |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version) |
| Saevus Finis Facilis Descensus Averno |
| Sahg Delusions of Grandeur |
| Sahg Memento Mori |
| Saidan Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity |
| Sanzu Heavy Over The Home |
| Saor Guardians |
| Sarpa Mauta Tala |
| Satan Atom by Atom |
| Satan Cruel Magic |
| Satyricon Volcano |
| Savatage Sirens |
| Saxon Wheels Of Steel |
| Scenario. When All is Said and Done |
| Scorpions Savage Amusement |
| Second To Sun Leviathan |
| Secrets of the Moon Black House |
| Leagues better than the last album, and whilst the band may have alienated a few impatient fans, the musical evolution and progression is clearly well inspired and the end product is a fluent album which gives 100% without unnecessary cheese. "He is Here" has a beautifully aspiring chorus and "Earth Hour" is probably one of the catchiest songs the band have ever written. |
| Sectioned Annihilated |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds |
| Selbst Despondency Chord Progressions |
| Selvans / Downfall Of Nur Selvans / Downfall of Nur |
| Septicflesh Titan |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Serpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark Sun |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ |
| Setherial Nord |
| Seven Impale Summit |
| I'm not going to hide my love for jazz fusion and prog, but this is one juicy album. |
| Shape of Despair Return to the Void |
| Shattered Skies The World We Used to Know |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible |
| Shylmagoghnar Transience |
| Shylmagoghnar Convergence |
| Another band going from strength to strength. A little heavier on the synths here, but doesn't take away from any of the magic that made the first two Shylmagoghnar albums so memorable and cohesive. |
| SikTh Opacities |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Sinistro Semente |
| Sinistro Vértice |
| A new vocalist but the allure of the last couple of sinistro albums is there in spades. |
| Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| Skaldic Curse Devourer |
The comparisons to Vektor are inevitable, but by god this is still a face-melting album with
enough moments of forward-thinking progression to make it stand out in the crowd. The
Apocalyptic Witchcraft record label is becoming more and more interesting these days. |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth |
| Slabdragger Rise Of The Dawncrusher |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Smothered The Inevitable End |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sojourner Premonitions |
| Solitude Aeturnus Into The Depths Of Sorrow |
| Solstice Pyre Fireborn |
| Soulfly Enslaved |
| Strange, I thought somebody reviewed this a few months ago? |
| Soulfly Savages |
| Southern Empire Another World |
| Sovereign Altered Realities |
| Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst |
| Srefa Solstice |
| Static Abyss Labyrinth of Veins |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Steve Hackett The Night Siren |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 |
| Stolas Allomaternal |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Stratovarius Nemesis |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous |
| Striker City Of Gold |
| Suffering Hour Dwell |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suffocation Pinnacle Of Bedlam |
| Suffocation Hymns From The Apocrypha |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies |
| Suicidal Tendencies 13 |
| Summon (PT) Helios |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements |
| Sunken Livslede |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal |
| Ironically this sounds like the very opposite of life, but I don't believe I've ever listened to an album by Sunn O))) that ended up being so satisfying. |
| Sunset In The 12th House Mozaic |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| AOTY contender for sure. The lyrics here are bitter and honest about society's many issues, but fused with some of the strongest and most aspiring songwriting this band has ever written. Svalbard have been looming in my "curious" band section for a while now ever since I saw them live, but on this album surely they prove to be one of the frontrunners for the UK metal scene. |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| Band is going from strength to strength. Always happy to hear a new Svalbard release and this hasn't disappointed me in the slightest. |
| Swallow the Sun When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light |
| Swans Children of God |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talanas Reason & Abstract |
| Talanas The Waspkeeper |
| Teethgrinder Misanthropy |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| Textures Phenotype |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Painting on Glass |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Algorithm Brute Force |
| The Amenta Occasus |
| The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness |
| The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker |
| The Black Crowes Amorica |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| The Body The Crying Out of Things |
| The Body and Dis Fig Orchards of a Futile Heaven |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Cult Love |
| The Cult Dreamtime |
| The Cult Choice Of Weapon |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| The Devil's Trade Vidékek Vannak Idebenn |
| Kinda reminds me of the quieter moments from Foscor's "Les Irreals Visions" but with added depth and a beautiful voice. One of the finer non-metal releases of 2023 for sure. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Distillers Sing, Sing Death House |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Enid Aerie Faerie Nonsense |
| The Enid Six Pieces |
| The Exploited Beat the Bastards |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Gathering Always |
| The Gathering Black Light District |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Gathering if_then_else |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism |
| The Groundhogs Split |
| The Groundhogs Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed |
| The Moon and the Nightspirit Metanoia |
| The Moon and the Nightspirit Aether |
| The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation |
| The Nefilim Zoon |
| The Order of Apollyon The Sword And The Dagger |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... |
| This is about the most blackened piece of music I've heard all year. It sometimes reminds me of early Candlemass and other times of very early MDB, but with a unique and original twist thanks to those well-orchestrated parts throughout. 'Malefica', 'A failed exorcism' and 'Ordeal' alone made me want to check these guys out more. The closer is a little underwhelming for me, but even then there's a sense of grandiosity and epic overtones. |
| The Ruins Of Beverast / Almyrkvi Almyrkvi / The Ruins Of Beverast (Split) |
| The Sword Age Of Winters |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts |
| The Wounded Kings Consolamentum |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Thin (USA-NY) Dusk |
| This Gift Is A Curse All Hail The Swinelord |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia |
| Thou Magus |
| Thumos Symposium |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld |
| Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörü Álmok Ezután Jönnek |
| Titaan Itima |
| Toadeater Bexadde |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance |
| Tool Undertow |
| Totengott Beyond the Veil |
| Touche Amore Stage Four |
| Transcending Rites Trinity and Ecstasy |
| Trap Them Blissfucker |
| Trautonist Ember |
| This is exactly the sort of album that marks the wide divide between those who love blackgaze and those who despise it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi to this release however, which sees the enigmatic duo channel a distinctive charm aesthetic straight from the heart of bands such as Laster and An Autumn for Crippled Children, whilst at the same time representing a neat fusion of blackened energy and soaring pop melodies. Not for everyone, but to be fair, this IS blackgaze. |
| Trelldom ...by the Shadows... |
| Tribulation The Children Of The Night |
| Tribulation Down Below |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Triumvir Foul Triumvir Foul |
| Troll (NO) Drep de Kristne |
| Turbowolf Two Hands |
| Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Twisted Sister You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll |
| Twisted Sister Under The Blade |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down |
| Tyr Hel |
| Ufomammut Idolum |
| Ufomammut Ecate |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Can the drummer in this album please stop being so inhumanly brilliant?rThanks. |
| Ulcerate Cutting the Throat of God |
| Ulthar Helionomicon |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman |
| Unfurl Ascension |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Usnea Portals Into Futility |
| Utstott Hjorungavagr |
| Vader Tibi et Igni |
| Valborg Endstrand |
| Valborg Zentrum |
| Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul |
| Van der Graaf Generator World Record |
| Varmia Nie Nas Widzę |
| Vastigr The Path of Perdition |
| Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull |
| Veilburner The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom |
| This band just keeps getting better and better. Holy moly. |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss |
| Vertebra Atlantis A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime |
| Victory Over The Sun Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! |
| This is the sort of avant-garde black metal I can really get behind. Plenty of twists and turns but still cohesive enough to warrant many, many repeat listens. |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II |
| Vircolac Veneration |
| Vital Spirit Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind |
| VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional... |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing |
| Voivod Target Earth |
| Voivod Synchro Anarchy |
| Vokonis Odyssey |
| VOLA Inmazes |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies |
| Volur Death Cult |
| Volus Oathsworn Vengeance |
| Vouna Atropos |
| Voyager V |
| Voyager Ghost Mile |
| Vredehammer Viperous |
| On the surface this is pretty simplistic stuff, but it's also a wholly solid and consistent collection of rattling death metal riffs and pulsating industrial explosions which bring to mind Samael at their best. Goes hard and then some. |
| Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves |
| So much fun. Yes, the OTT vocals and 80s-obsessed production won't be for everybody, but an album like this is surely designed for entertainment and the band are a very self-aware collective, so they know EXACTLY who's going to like this and who isn't. That said, this is a gleeful 40+ minutes of unapologetic cheese and I personally wouldn't have it any other way. |
| Vuur & Zijde / Impavida Vuur & Zijde / Impavida |
| Haunting, unique, and thoroughly entrancing as every single song on this split between two forward-thinking black metal bands compels you to listen with no outside distraction. Songs by Vuur & Zijde are mostly psychedelic, beautifully ambitious pieces of work, the masterpiece that is "Zonnestorm" providing atmospheric vocal leads to enhance the sound. The Impavida songs on the other hand are not quite as charming but certainly engulfing. The sheer menace of "Gram" provides a chaotic listening experience whereas the monumental closer "Wahn & Stille" builds to a beautiful albeit crushing crescendo. A fine split by Prophecy Productions. |
| Wake Devouring Ruin |
| Nothing much to say about this, apart from the fact it rips. And then some. |
| Wake Thought Form Descent |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows |
| Wallowing Earth Reaper |
| Wardruna Runaljod – Ragnarok |
| Wayfarer A Romance with Violence |
| Wayfarer American Gothic |
| Waylander Reawakening of Pride Once Lost |
| We Never Learned To Live The Sleepwalk Transmissions |
| Weather Systems Ocean Without a Shore |
| White Widows Pact White Widows Pact |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Will Haven VII |
| WILLOW Empathogen |
| Windhand Soma |
| A nice slice of sludgy, hypnotic doom. 'Evergreen' is beautiful and 'Woodbine' is powerfully heavy. I really like how the vocals sound so mesmerizing at times too, as on the album opener 'Orchard'. |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| Without Waves Comedian |
| Wo Fat The Conjuring |
| Wolf Devil Seed |
| I expected nothing less than a heavy, solid album full of fist-pumping riffs from Wolf. Nothing new, but "Devil Seed" proves they're as strong and belligerent as ever. 'Shark Attack', 'Surgeons of Lobotomy' and 'Frozen' are my personal highlights. |
| Wolvennest Temple |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Wolvserpent Aporia: Kala: Ananta |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies And Electric Light |
| Worm Foreverglade |
| Wounds of Recollection Warm Glow of the End of Everything |
| Wyrmwoods No Sun nor Moon |
| Xenoglyph Spiritfraud |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Ygg Ygg |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| Yoo Doo Right Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose |
| Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers |
| Zola Jesus Arkhon |
| Zombi Shape Shift |
| Zombi Direct Inject |
| Zopp Dominion |
| Zuriaake Afterimage of Autumn |
| ZZ Top ZZ Top's First Album |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres |
| 3.5 great |
| Heaume Mortal Solstices |
| SednA Last Sun |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| 1349 The Infernal Pathway |
| 1349 The Wolf and the King |
| 156/Silence Irrational Pull |
| 16 Dream Squasher |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet |
| 40 Watt Sun Perfect Light |
| 40 Watt Sun Little Weight |
| :Nodfyr: Eigenheid |
| A Constant Knowledge of Death Dissecting A One-Winged Bird |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| A Lily Nocturne Thunder |
| A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests |
| Aara Phthonos |
| Abaddon Incarnate The Wretched Sermon |
| Abadir Ison |
| Aberration Refracture |
| Abhorrency Climax of Disgusting Impurities |
| Abhorrent Decimation The Pardoner |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser |
| Abiotic Casuistry |
| Abnormality Sociopathic Constructs |
| Abominator Evil Proclaimed |
| Abominor Opus: Decay |
| Aborted The Archaic Abattoir |
| Aborted Global Flatline |
| Aborted Strychnine.213 |
| Aborted TerrorVision |
| Aborted La Grande Mascarade |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Above Aurora The Shrine of Deterioration |
| Above Aurora Myriad Woes |
| Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus |
| Abrahma In Time For The Last Rays Of Light |
| Abrams In The Dark |
| Abrams Blue City |
| Abstracted Atma Conflux |
| Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate |
| Absu The Third Storm Of Cythraul |
| Absu Tara |
| Abyssic High The Memory |
| Abyssic Brought Forth in Iniquity |
| Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism |
| Accept Breaker |
| Accept Objection Overruled |
| Accuser The Forlorn Divide |
| Accuser The Mastery |
| Acephalix Decreation |
| Acherontas Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II) |
| Acherontas Faustian Ethos |
| Acherontas Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions |
| Acherontas Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων |
| Acid King Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere |
| Acid Throne Kingdom's Death |
| Acres In Sickness & Health |
| Act of Defiance Old Scars, New Wounds |
| ACxDC Antichrist Demoncore |
| ACxDC Satan Is King |
| Ad Infinitum Chapter I: Monarchy |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Ad Omega Aphelic Ascent |
| Adagio Life |
| Addaura ...And The Lamps Expire |
| Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown |
| Adversarial Solitude with the Eternal... |
| Aegrus In Manus Satanas |
| Aegrus Invoking The Abysmal Night |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Aeon Aeons Black |
| Aeon God Ends Here |
| Aeon Zen Transversal |
| Aerosmith Done With Mirrors |
| Aeternam Al Qassam |
| Aeternam Heir of the Rising Sun |
| Aeternus Heathen |
| Aeternus Philosopher |
| Aetheria Conscientia The Blossoming |
| Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness |
| Aethyrick Death is Absent |
| AFI Burials |
| Afsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død |
| Afsky Om Hundrede År |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| After the Burial Evergreen |
| Afterbirth In But Not Of |
| Agathodaimon Blacken The Angel |
| Agathodaimon Phoenix |
| Agathodaimon Higher Art Of Rebellion |
| Agathodaimon The Seven |
| Ageless Oblivion Penthos |
| Ageless Oblivion Suspended Between Earth and Sky |
| Ageless Summoning Corrupting the Entempled Plane |
| Agenda Apocalyptic Wasteland Blues |
| Aglo Build Fear |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Arc |
| Agriculture Agriculture |
| Agriculture Living is Easy |
| Agrimonia Awaken |
| Interesting mix of blackened sludge, post-metal and an altogether crusty production value. Sort of reminds me of the more melodic side of Bolzer and Black Anvil's latter day material, though the more lengthy compositions here stand out as a different aspect compared to those two bands. Perhaps not gripping enough for me to warrant a higher rating, but certainly provides music for thought. |
| Agrypnie Metamorphosis |
| Agrypnie Erg |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs |
| Those first few songs are really intoxicating in their atmosphere, but I feel like the album could stop there and be a brilliant EP rather than an album 20 minutes longer than it should be. Epic for sure but some sections in the second half of the album fail to carry the initial momentum of "Prof. Arronax Descent into the vast Oceans" through to the title track. |
| Ahleuchatistas Expansion |
| Ahna Crimson Dawn |
| Aisles Beyond Drama |
| Ajattara Lupaus |
| Akercocke Rape of the Bastard Nazerene |
| Akritas Akritas |
| Al-Namrood Worship the Degenerate |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alaric End of Mirrors |
| Alarum Recontinue |
| Albez Duz Wings of Tzinacan |
| Alburnum The Withered Roots Of Reality |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alda A Distant Fire |
| Aldaaron Arcane Mountain Cult |
| Aldaaron Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depth |
| Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age |
| Algebra Chiroptera |
| Alghol Night Eternal |
| Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds |
| Alice Cooper Brutal Planet |
| Alice Cooper DaDa |
| Alice Cooper Pretties For You |
| Alice Cooper Trash |
| Alice Cooper School's Out |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire |
| Alkaloid Numen |
| All Out War Crawl Among the Filth |
| All Pigs Must Die Hostage Animal |
| All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker |
| All Tomorrows Sol Agnates |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience |
| Allegaeon Damnum |
| Allochiria Throes |
| Allochiria Commotion |
| Alluvial Sarcoma |
| Alluvial Death Is But A Door |
| Almamegretta Senghe |
| Altarage Endinghent |
| Altarage Succumb |
| Altars (AUS) Ascetic Reflection |
| Altars Ablaze Life Desecration |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky |
| Altered Dead Returned to Life |
| Alunah Solennial |
| Alunah Violet Hour |
| Alunah Strange Machine |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence |
| Amalekim Avodah Zarah |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive |
| Amenra Mass VI |
| Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines |
| Amiensus All Paths Lead to Death |
| Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones New Monuments |
| Amoeba Split Quiet Euphoria |
| Amon Amarth Berserker |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Amorphis Halo |
| Amulet The Inevitable War |
| An Autumn As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
| An Autumn Closure |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law |
| Anathema Pentecost III |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anatomy of Habit Black Openings |
| Anciients Beyond the Reach of the Sun |
| ANCST Summits of Despondency |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Dirges |
| And Now The Owls Are Smiling Epitaph |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Megafauna |
| Andy James Exodus |
| Angantyr Indsigt |
| Angel Witch As Above, So Below |
| Angel Witch Angel of Light |
| Angellore Rien ne Devait Mourir |
| Angelus Apatrida Cabaret de la Guillotine |
| Angra Fireworks |
| Angra Aqua |
| Angra Ømni |
| Anima Hereticae Ov Behest |
| Anima Hereticae Descended From The Mountains |
| Anima Morte Serpents in the Field of Sleep |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Annihilator Annihilator |
| Anomalie Visions |
| Anomalie Riverchild |
| Antarktis Ildlaante |
| Ante-Inferno Antediluvian Dreamscapes |
| Anteloper Pink Dolphins |
| Antethic Mythographer |
| Anthrax State Of Euphoria |
| Anthrax We've Come For You All |
| Anti-God Hand Blight Year |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Vengeance of Eternal Fire |
| Anticosm The Call of the Void |
| Antigama Whiteout |
| Antiversum Cosmos Comedenti |
| Antoine Berjeaut Chromesthesia |
| Anubis The Unforgivable |
| Anvil Juggernaut Of Justice |
| Aodon Portraits |
| Aoratos Gods Without Name |
| Aortes Devouring Gloom |
| Aparthiva Raktadhara Adyapeeth Maranasamhita |
| Aphonic Threnody The Great Hatred |
| Aphotic (ITA) Abyssgazer |
| Aphrodite's Child 666 |
| Apophys Devoratis |
| Aprilmist Homesick |
| Aquilus Griseus |
| Aquilus Bellum II |
| Arabrot Norwegian Gothic |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Archgoat The Luciferian Crown |
| Architects Ruin |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective |
| Decent enough by tech death metal standards but I feel like some of these riffs and solos are forced in rather than flowing with the rest of the instrumentation in a natural way. It's mostly impressive musicianship that's on display here, with vocals a little too hesitant but still relevant for the most part. The first half of the album seems better written than the latter half. |
| Arckanum Kostogher |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale |
| Ard Take Up My Bones |
| Argenthorns The Ravening |
| Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs |
| Aristarchos Martyr of Star and Fire |
| Arkaik Nemethia |
| Arkhon Infaustus Orthodoxyn |
| Arkona (PL) Stella Pandora |
| Arkona (RUS) Lepta |
| Arkona (RUS) Slovo |
| Armored Saint Win Hands Down |
| Armored Saint Punching the Sky |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Apotheosis |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds |
| Ars Veneficium / Ulvdalir In Death's Cold Embrace |
| Arthur Brown Long Long Road |
| Artillery Fear of Tomorrow |
| Artillery X |
| Arx Atrata THE PATH UNTRAVELLED |
| Asagraum Veil of Death, Ruptured |
| Ascension The Dead of the World |
| Ascension Under Ether |
| Aseethe Hopes of Failure |
| Aseethe Throes |
| ASG Survive Sunrise |
| Asgrauw Façade |
| Asgrauw Oorsprong |
| Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen |
| Ashen Horde Fallen Cathedrals |
| Askeregn Brennende Åkres Grøde |
| Askog Varþnaþer |
| Asomvel Knuckle Duster |
| Asphagor Pyrogenesis |
| Asphodelus Sculpting From Time |
| Assumption Hadean Tides |
| Astodan Évora |
| Astral Moon Into Solar Abyss |
| Astral Path An Oath to the Void |
| Astralborne Across the Aeons |
| Astriferous Pulsations from the Black Orb |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom |
| Astrosaur Portals |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| Ataraxie Résignés |
| Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades |
| Ataraxy The Last Mirror |
| Atari Teenage Riot Reset |
| Atavisma The Chthonic Rituals |
| Atavist III: Absolution |
| Atavistia Cosmic Warfare |
| Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth) |
| Very interesting album, which is naturally controlled by epic, ambitious atmospheres and a rhythm section which very rarely becomes dull and bland. The vocals however really don't seem to match the quality of the instrumentation, and thus it sounds a little mixed at times. As on 'Sol Invictus' and 'Twelve stars and an azure down', the guitar work is beautiful and the drum/bass work flows very well indeed, but shoddy vocals which prove considerably weaker unfortunately lower the quality a bit. This is however more than made up for with the brilliance of songs such as 'Hersiarch' and excellent closer 'White goddess unveiled', both of which written from the heart and soul. |
| Atlases Woe Portrait |
| Atlases Between The Day & I |
| Atomic Symphony HYBRIS |
| Aton Five Aton Five |
| Atrae Bilis Divinihility |
| Atrae Bilis Aumicide |
| Atramentus Stygian |
| Atrocity Masters Of Darkness |
| Atrox Monocle |
| Atsuko Chiba Water, It Feels Like It's Growing |
| Attan End Of |
| Attic Sanctimonious |
| Attic Return Of The Witchfinder |
| Au Champ Des Morts Dans La Joie |
| Au Clair de Lune Mysticism of Ecstatic Communion |
| Au-Dessus End of Chapter |
| Audn Vökudraumsins fangi |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| August Burns Red Death Below |
| Aura Mortis Aion Teleos |
| Aura Noir Aura Noire |
| Auriferous Flame The Great Mist Within |
| Auriferous Flame Ardor for Black Mastery |
| Auriferous Flame The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers |
| Author and Punisher Melk En Honing |
| Author and Punisher Beastland |
| Author and Punisher Kruller |
| Autokrator Persecution |
| Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal |
| Autopsy Shitfun |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant |
| Autopsy Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts |
| Avandra Skylighting |
| Avast Mother Culture |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse |
| Avdagata The Faceless One |
| Avenade Our Raging God Unknown to Us |
| A real fresh sound this is. A lot of melodic moments which give way to this powerful albeit raw atmospheric twist which sees each band member giving 100%. The mammoth centrepiece that is "Separations" is an obvious highlight but I think of the album as a more consistent piece which is fluid if not always memorable. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Aversio Humanitatis Behold The Silent Dwellers |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All |
| Aviations Luminaria |
| Avtotheism Reflections Of Execrable Stillness |
| Awe Providentia |
| Axegressor Last |
| Axis of Despair Contempt for Man |
| Ayreon The Source |
| Azmari Maelstrom |
| Azure Emote The Third Perspective |
| Azusa Loop of Yesterdays |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke |
| Azziard Metempsychose |
| Ba'a Deus Qui Non Mentitur |
| Ba'al In Gallows by Mass |
| Ba'al Soft Eyes |
| Backxwash HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST... |
| I didn't get as much raw emotion from this album as I did the other Backxwash releases, but it still feels like game-changing stuff which can't really be pigeonholed into one meaningless sub-genre. |
| Bad Breeding Exiled |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Baest Necro Sapiens |
| Bait Revelation of the Pure |
| Balwezo Westijiz Tower Of Famine |
| Baptism V: The Devil's Fire |
| Baptists Bloodmines |
| Barbarian Hermit Mean Sugar |
| Barishi Blood from the Lion's Mouth |
| Baron (FIN) Beneath the Blazing Abyss |
| Baroness Purple |
| Baroness Stone |
| Barren Earth A Complex of Cages |
| Barren Womb Lizard Lounge |
| Bask III |
| Bastard Feast Osculum Infame |
| Bastard Sapling Instinct Is Forever |
| Bathory Nordland II |
| Bathsheba Servus |
| Battle Dagorath Abyss Horizons |
| Battleaxe Burn This Town |
| Bauhaus Go Away White |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Bear Noumenon |
| Bear Propaganda |
| Bear Ghost Jiminy |
| Beardfish Songs For Beating Hearts |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Beastmaker Inside the Skull |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things |
| Beastwars IV |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction |
| Before The Dawn Stormbringers |
| Begerith A.D.A.M. |
| Begrime Exemious Rotting in the Aftermath |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Bekor Qilish Throes of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism |
| Belenos Argoat |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin Stygian Bough Volume 1 |
| Bellrope You Must Relax |
| Belore Artefacts |
| Belore Eastern Tales |
| Below the Sun Alien World |
| Belphegor Goatreich-Fleshcult |
| Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods |
| Bend the Future Sounds so Wrong |
| Benediction Subconscious Terror |
| Benediction Scriptures |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime |
| Benighted Obscene Repressed |
| Benighted Ekbom |
| Berator Elysian Inferno |
| Bereft (USA-WI) Lands |
| Bergraven Det Framlidna Minnet |
| Besra Transitions |
| Betraying the Martyrs Rapture |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Bewitcher Under the Witching Cross |
| Bewitcher Spell Shock |
| Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone |
| Bhleg Fäghring |
| Biblical The City That Always Sleeps |
| Big Business Command Your Weather |
| Big Scenic Nowhere Visions Beyond Horizon |
| Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers |
| Bill Baird Eternal Space Bar |
| Bill Laurance Affinity |
| Billy Idol Whiplash Smile |
| Bilwis Hameln |
| Binary Code Memento Mori |
| Bio-Cancer Tormenting The Innocent |
| Biohazard Biohazard |
| Biohazard Kill or be Killed |
| Biohazard Means to an End |
| Birds in Row We Already Lost the World |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein |
| Birds in Row and Coilguns You and I in the Gap |
| Birth (USA-CA) Born |
| Birth Control Operation |
| Bizarrekult Vi Overlevde |
| Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen |
| Bjork Medulla |
| Bjork Fossora |
| Bl'ast! Blood! |
| Black Anvil As Was |
| Black Anvil Regenesis |
| Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death |
| Black Cilice Esoteric Atavism |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive |
| Black Death Cult Diaspora |
| Black Elephant Seven Swords |
| Black Fast Spectre of Ruin |
| Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican |
| Black Label Society Grimmest Hits |
| Black Lava The Savage Winds to Wisdom |
| Black Map Melodoria |
| Black Mare Death Magick Mother |
| Black Moon Mother Illusions Under the Sun |
| Black Moth Anatomical Venus |
| Black Orchid Empire Yugen |
| Black Orchid Empire Tempus Veritas |
| Black Pestilence Hail the Flesh |
| Black Pyramid The Paths of Time Are Vast |
| Black Royal Earthbound |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes |
| Black Shape Of Nexus Carrier |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen |
| Black Sites Untrue |
| Black Spell Season Of The Damned |
| Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
| Black Table Obelisk |
| Black Tusk TCBT |
| Black Tusk The Way Forward |
| Black Void Cult ...Even The Stars Have To Die |
| Black Vulpine Veil Nebula |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| Blackevil Praise the Communion Fire... |
| Blackfield Welcome To My DNA |
| BlackLab In a Bizarre Dream |
| Blackmore's Night Shadow Of The Moon |
| Blackmore's Night Under A Violet Moon |
| Blackmore's Night The Village Lanterne |
| Blackwater Holylight Blackwater Holylight |
| Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter |
| Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion |
| Blasphematory The Lower Catacombs |
| Blaze Bayley War Within Me |
| Blaze Bayley Circle of Stone |
| Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts |
| Blaze of Perdition Upharsin |
| Blaze of Sorrow Absentia |
| Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati |
| Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence |
| Bleed from Within Fracture |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All |
| Blencathra II - On These Shores Where Nothing Now Stands |
| Blighted Eye Agony's Bespoke |
| Blind Guardian Beyond The Red Mirror |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Blodhemn Sverger Hemn |
| Blodtar Det Förtegna Förflutna |
| Blood Chalice The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism |
| Blood Feast The Future State Of Wicked |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| I feel totally justified rating each Blood Incantation album 3.5. This is pretty solid stuff yes, but let's calm down and see what happens in a decade's time. |
| Blood Red Throne Nonagon |
| Blood Tsunami Grave Condition |
| Bloodbark Bonebranches |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn |
| Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest |
| Bloodbather Silence |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend |
| Bloodshot Dawn Reanimation |
| Bloodthorn In the Shadow of Your Black Wings |
| Bloodthorn Onwards Into Battle |
| Bloodtruth Martyrium |
| Bloody Hammers The Summoning |
| Blue Ox Holy Vore |
| Blues Pills Holy Moly! |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae |
| Bocc Dolça Mort en els Llims del Rec Comtal |
| Body Count Manslaughter |
| Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth |
| Body Void Atrocity Machine |
| Bog Monster Servants of the Necrosect |
| Bokassa Crimson Riders |
| Bolt Gun The Tower |
| Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law! |
| Bolzer Soma |
| Bolzer Hero |
| BoneHawk Albino Rhino |
| Bonehunter Sexual Panic Human Machine |
| Bonehunter Dark Blood Reincarnation System |
| Bonehunter Children of the Atom |
| Bong Thought and Existence |
| Bongripper Terminal |
| Bongripper Empty |
| Bongzilla Weedsconsin |
| Bonjour Tristesse Against Leviathan! |
| Bonjour Tristesse The World Without Us |
| Borgne Y |
| Borgne Temps Morts |
| Boris Dear |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2022) |
| Borknagar Urd |
| Born to Murder the World The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism |
| Boss Keloid Melted on the Inch |
| Boss Keloid Family the Smiling Thrush |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours |
| Bossk .4 |
| Botanist VIII: Selenotrope |
| Brandon Seabrook In the Swarm |
| Breach Venom |
| Bright Curse Before the Shore |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Briqueville Quelle |
| Broken Hope Mutilated And Assimilated |
| Brood of Hatred The Golden Age |
| Bruce Dickinson Tattooed Millionaire |
| Brusque BOÎTE NOIRE |
| Brutai Born |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Bruxa Maria Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray |
| Burial Hordes Ruins |
| Burner It All Returns To Nothing |
| Burning Gloom Amygdala |
| Burzum Thulêan Mysteries |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Butcher On Fowl Of Tyrant Wing |
| Bythos Chthonic Gates Unveiled |
| Byzantine The Cicada Tree |
| C R O W N The End of All Things |
| Cadaver Shrine Benighted Desecration |
| Caged (USA-PA) From Roving About the Earth |
| Caina Gentle Illness |
| Cainan Dawn Lagu |
| Calderum Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands |
| Calderum Lord Cramridor |
| Calderum Desecration of the Bastille |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace |
| Calligram The Eye Is the First Circle |
| Calligram Position | Momentum |
| Camel of Doom Terrestrial |
| Camerata Mediolanense Atalanta Fugiens |
| Campo Di Marte Campo Di Marte |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak |
| Cancer Shadow Gripped |
| Candlemass The Door to Doom |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Cantique Lepreux Le Bannissement |
| Canvas Solaris Chromosphere |
| Capsize The Angst In My Veins |
| Decent melodic hardcore album with virtually the right amount of heaviness and emotional passages. Highlights for me would be "Pale" and "Tension". |
| Capsize A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All Tha |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica |
| Car Bomb Mordial |
| Carathis The Moonstone Temple |
| Caravela Escarlate III |
| Carcass Despicable |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Carnation (BE) Chapel of Abhorrence |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Carnosus Wormtales |
| Carole King Tapestry |
| Caronte Codex Babalon |
| Carpe Noctem Vitrun |
| Carpet Collision |
| Cartographs Wilt and Blossom |
| Castle Welcome to the Graveyard |
| Catalepsia Inheritance |
| Cataleptic The Tragedy |
| Caterina Barbieri Spirit Exit |
| Cathedral Endtyme |
| Cathedral The VIIth Coming |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Celeste Infidele(s) |
| Celeste Assassine(s) |
| Celestial Grave Vitriolic Atonement |
| Celestial Sanctuary Soul Diminished |
| Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment |
| Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse |
| Cell Press Cages |
| Centinex Death in Pieces |
| Ceremonial Bloodbath Genesis of Malignant Entropy |
| Ceremony Of Silence Hálios |
| Chain Of Flowers Never Ending Space |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Obsession Destruction |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice |
| Chaos Divine Legacies |
| Chaos Invocation Wherever We Roam... |
| Chaostar The Undivided Light |
| Chapel of Disease Echoes of Light |
| Chasms Glimpse of Heaven |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence |
| Chernaa Empyrean Fire |
| Chest Rockwell Mentis Oculi |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms |
| Chrome Ghost House of Falling Ash |
| Chrome Waves A Grief Observed |
| Chrome Waves Where We Live |
| Chrome Waves The Rain Will Cleanse |
| Chronicle Where Chaos Thrives |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| Chthonic 十殿 Mirror Of Retribution |
| Chthonic 高砂軍 Takasago Army |
| Church of Misery And Then There Were None |
| Church of the Cosmic Skull There Is No Time |
| Cianide Unhumanized |
| Cicada the Burrower Blight Witch Regalia |
| Cinderella Still Climbing |
| Cinema Cinema Mjölnir |
| Circuit Circuit Body Songs |
| Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black |
| Cirith Ungol Half Past Human |
| Cirkeln The Primitive Covenant |
| City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters |
| Clairvoyance Threshold of Nothingness |
| Claret Ash Worldtorn: Anemoia |
| Claustrum Claustrum |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| Cloak Black Flame Eternal |
| Cloak of Altering Manifestation |
| Close Your Eyes Line in the Sand |
| Closure in Moscow Soft Hell |
| Cloud Rat Pollinator |
| Cloudkicker Subsume |
| Cloudkicker Solitude |
| Clouds (INT) Durere |
| Cloven Hoof Who Mourns for the Morning Star? |
| Cloven Hoof Age of Steel |
| Clutch Pure Rock Fury |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West |
| Clutch Transnational Speedway League |
| Coathanger Abortion Plan C |
| Cobalt Slow Forever |
| Cocteau Twins Garlands |
| Code Augur Nox |
| Pretty good album indeed. I think sometimes the band sound a little too similar to Talanas or Enslaved for my liking, but for the most part they are doing the job just right. Clean vocals are very effective against a constant barrage of progressive black metal structures and sometimes epic atmospheres, though the cleans can be surpassed by the intensity of the growls. |
| Code Flyblown Prince |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Codespeaker Scavenger |
| Codex Mortis Tales of Woe |
| Coexistence Collateral Dimension |
| Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise |
| Coffins Sinister Oath |
| Cognitive Abhorrence |
| Cognizance Upheaval |
| Cognizance Phantazein |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| ColdCell Age of Unreason |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Coldworld Isolation |
| Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss |
| Reminds me quite a lot of 80s era Kiilling Joke (and maybe the latter era of that same band too), but in a good way and which never seems to get the point where this band are basically a copycat. There's a lot of neat little touches here and there in every song-but what particularly stood out to me was the very prominent bass work, and its solid collaboration with the sometimes gritty, sometimes melodious guitar style. To me what drags the album down a bit is how the vocals seem a little "off" at times, especially in the album opener and "Dark Life of Seduction", and "Comedown" just irritates me every time I listen to it. But this is mostly made up for by the eccentricity of songs like "Course Correction" and "Sharp Fangs, Pale Flesh". |
| Collage Moonshine |
| Collapse Black Sheep is Still Dreaming |
| Collider Excessively Worthwhile |
| Colosso Obnoxious |
| Coltsblood Into the Unfathomable Abyss |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing |
| Comedy of Errors Time Machine |
| Complete Failure Crossburner |
| Conan Blood Eagle |
| Conan Existential Void Guardian |
| Concilium (PT) Sky Bvrial |
| Concrete Winds Concrete Winds |
| Condemned His Divine Shadow |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers |
| Consider the Source The Stare |
| Constant Smiles Kenneth Anger |
| Contrarian Their Worm Never Dies |
| Contrarian Sage of Shekhinah |
| Convocation Ashes Coalesce |
| Convocation No Dawn for the Caliginous Night |
| Cor Scorpii Ruin |
| Corpus Christii The Bitter End of Old |
| Corpus Diavolis Elixiria Ekstasis |
| Corrections House Know How To Carry A Whip |
| Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity |
| Corrosion of Conformity Animosity |
| Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God |
| Corrosion of Conformity IX |
| Corrupt Moral Altar Eunoia |
| Coscradh Nahanagan Stadial |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains |
| Cosmicdust Tachyon |
| Cosmicdust Sadness |
| Cosmo Sheldrake Wild Wet World |
| Cough Still They Pray |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us |
| Counting Days Liberated Sounds |
| Counting Hours The Wishing Tomb |
| Countless Skies New Dawn |
| Coven Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Craft White Noise and Black Metal |
| Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon |
| Crépuscule d'Hiver Par-Delà Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres |
| Creatvre Eloge de l'ombre |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms |
| Creeping Death Wretched Illusions |
| Crescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of Akhet |
| Cretin Stranger |
| Crimfall Amain |
| Criminal Fear Itself |
| Criminal Sacrificio |
| Crimson Moon Mors Vincit Omnia |
| Crimson Moonlight Abaddon |
| Crimson Throne Of Void & Solitude |
| Cripple Bastards Nero in metastasi |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Great Escape |
| Crisix Against the Odds |
| Cro-Mags In the Beginning |
| Crobot Something Supernatural |
| Crom Dubh Firebrands And Ashes |
| Crone Gotta Light? |
| Crone (DE) Godspeed |
| Crow Black Sky Sidereal Light: Volume One |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest |
| Crowbar Zero And Below |
| Cruachan The Middle Kingdom |
| Cruachan Pagan |
| Cruachan Folk-Lore |
| Cruachan Tuatha Na Gael |
| Cruachan The Living and the Dead |
| Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Crucified Barbara In The Red |
| Crust (RUS) Stoic |
| Crypt Rot Embryonic Devils |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light |
| Crypt Sermon The Stygian Rose |
| Cryptae Nightmare Traversal |
| Cryptopsy As Gomorrah Burns |
| Crystal Coffin The Curse of Immortality |
| Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man |
| Cult of Endtime In Charnel Lights |
| Cult of Lilith Mara |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cunabula The Weight Of Sleep |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Cursebinder Drifting |
| Cut Up Wherever They May Rot |
| Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Cystic Palace of Shadows |
| D.R.I. Thrash Zone |
| Daevid Allen Now is the happiest time of your life |
| Daevid Allen Bananamoon |
| Dagoba Tales of the Black Dawn |
| This album gets better as it progresses-and I mean that quite literally. I mean, the first half of the album for me is simply average stuff, going through the motions as far as the band's musical capability is concerned, but then songs like "Born Twice" and "The Loss" rip through the stereo, and you're suddenly wondering where all this fight and vigour was with songs as lame as "The Sunset Curse" went. Nonetheless, that's pretty much it. If I'm being completely honest, it's the stale vocal delivery which really annoyed me and was the main reason why I couldn't quite get into the beginning of the album, but it's made up for by the excellence of "Sorcery" and "O, Inverted World". So in that respect, a fairly disjointed, inconsistent album, but one which by the end seems to be a pleasant surprise. |
| Dakhma (SUI) Blessings of Amurdad |
| Dan Terminus Automated Refrains |
| Danava Nothing But Nothing |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer |
| Dantalion Fatum |
| Danzig 7:77 - I Luciferi |
| Danzig Circle of Snakes |
| Darius Jones Fluxkit Vancouver (It's Suite but Scared) |
| Dark Buddha Rising Inversum |
| Dark Buddha Rising II |
| Dark Buddha Rising Mathreyata |
| Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse |
| Dark The Suns Suru raivosi sydämeni pimeydessä |
| Dark The Suns Raven and the Nightsky |
| Darkend Viaticum |
| Darkened Kingdom Of Decay |
| Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Mardom |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour |
| Darkestrah Turan |
| Darkflight Entropy |
| Darkher Realms |
| Darkher The Buried Storm |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| Darkwoods My Betrothed Angel Of Carnage Unleashed |
| Dautha Brethren of the Black Soil |
| Dauthuz Vom Schwarzen Schmied |
| David Knudson The Only Thing You Have to Change is Everything |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) |
| Dawn Fades Ode |
| Dawn of Solace Flames of Perdition |
| Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong |
| Dawn Ray'd To Know The Light |
| Dawnbreaker Banisher of Unlight |
| Dawnwalker The Unknowing |
| Ddent Ex Auditu |
| De Arma Nightcall |
| De Profundis The Corruption of Virtue |
| Dead and Dripping Blackened Cerebral Rifts |
| I feel that album art. So intense. Just like the music. |
| Dead Cross Dead Cross |
| Dead Neanderthals Metal |
| Dead Neanderthals Specters |
| Dead Register Fiber |
| Dead Void Volatile Forms |
| Deadly Carnage Endless Blue |
| Deadly Circus Fire The Hydra’s Tailor |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death And Vanilla Flicker |
| Death Angel Humanicide |
| Death Courier Necrotic Verses |
| Death Engine Mud |
| Death Engine Ocean |
| Death Fetishist Clandestine Sacrament |
| I like the weird, sort-of psychedelic musicianship and rough production here, they really make the songs as gritty as they are fluent. That said, I find the songwriting mostly repetitive here and wholly dependent on one singular main riff, which aren't that spectacular to begin with. Nonetheless, this album has some excellent moments, such as the notable melodic "Netherrealm" and that slightly disturbing opener "The Gifted Medium". |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing |
| Deathcave Smoking Mountain |
| Deathcode Society Unlightenment |
| Deathcult Beasts Of Faith |
| Deathrite Revelation Of Chaos |
| DeathSlaughter Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Decayed Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons |
| Deceased Luck of the Corpse |
| Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of Hope |
| Decembre Noir Your Sunset | My Sunrise |
| Deception (NO) Daenacteh |
| Deceptionist Initializing Irreversible Process |
| Decipher Arcane Paths of Resurrection |
| Decline of the I Escape |
| Decline of the I Johannes |
| Decoherence Order |
| Deep Purple The Book Of Taliesyn |
| Deep Purple Fireball |
| Deep Purple Stormbringer |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular |
| Deep Purple inFinite |
| Def Leppard On Through The Night |
| Def Leppard High 'N' Dry |
| Def Leppard Adrenalize |
| Defeater Abandoned |
| Defect Designer Neanderthal |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deha Averses II |
| Deicide To Hell With God |
| Deicide Serpents of the Light |
| Deicide Scars of the Crucifix |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part |
| Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy |
| Deinonychus Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide |
| Deitus Acta Non Verba |
| Deitus Irreversible |
| Deity's Muse Ennui (EP) |
| Deivos Endemic Divine |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill |
| Deluge Ægo Templo |
| Demersal Demersal |
| Demiser Through the Gate Eternal |
| Demon Lung A Dracula |
| Demoniac The Fire And The Wind |
| Demoniac (CHL) Nube Negra |
| Demonic Resurrection Dashavatar |
| Demonical Darkness Unbound |
| Demonical Chaos Manifesto |
| Den Der Hale Pastoral Light |
| Den Saakaldte Pesten Som Tar Over |
| Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits |
| Depravation IV:Letvm |
| Depressed Mode Decade of Silence |
| Derek Sherinian The Phoenix |
| Descend Into Despair Opium |
| Desecresy Deserted Realms |
| desert Fortune Favors the Brave |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld |
| Destrage A Means to No End |
| Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild |
| Destruction Spiritual Genocide |
| Destruction Mad Butcher |
| Destruction Day Of Reckoning |
| Det Eviga Leendet Reverence |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Devastator (UK) Conjurers of Cruelty |
| Devenial Verdict Ash Blind |
| Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light |
| Devil Master Ecstasies of Never Ending Night |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devin Townsend Powernerd |
| coffeercoffeerI LOVE MAH COFFEErI LOVE THE COFFEE |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Deviser Evil Summons Evil |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty |
| Dew-Scented Intermination |
| DGM Tragic Separation |
| Diablation Par Le Feu |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| Diabolic Oath Oracular Hexations |
| Die So Fluid Not Everybody Gets A Happy Ending |
| Digir Gidim The Celestial Macrocosmic Scale and the Shimmering |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dio Sacred Heart |
| Dio Dream Evil |
| Dio Magica |
| Dio Killing The Dragon |
| Dio Master Of The Moon |
| Diocletian Inexorable Nexus |
| Dirge (FR) Hyperion |
| Disbelief The Ground Collapses |
| Disbelief Killing Karma |
| Disguised Malignance Entering the Gateways |
| Disillusion Ayam |
| Disimperium Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars |
| Diskord/Atvm Bipolarities |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity |
| Disperse Foreword |
| Dispirited Spirits The Redshift Blues |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dissentient Labyrinth |
| Distention Nothing Comes From Death |
| Distorted Harmony A Way Out |
| Divine Element Thaurachs of Borsu |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues |
| Djevel Naa Skrider Natten Sort |
| Djevel Natt Til Ende |
| Djevelkult Drep Alle Guder |
| Djunah Femina Furens |
| Dodsferd Wrath |
| Dodsrit Spirit Crusher |
| Doedsvangr Koinonia |
| Doldrey Celestial Deconstruction |
| Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of… |
| Dominanz Noxious |
| Domination Inc. Memoir 414 |
| Dominia The Withering Of The Rose |
| Domkraft Seeds |
| Dool Summerland |
| Doomocracy Unorthodox |
| Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow |
| Down Down IV - Part I |
| Down Down IV - Part II |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You |
| Downcross White Tower |
| Downfall of Gaia Atrophy |
| Downfall of Gaia Silhouettes Of Disgust |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia |
| Dracena Infernal Damnation |
| Draconian A Rose For The Apocalypse |
| Draconian Under A Godless Veil |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny |
| Draugnim Verum Malum |
| Dreadnought A Wake In Sacred Waves |
| Dreadnought Emergence |
| Dreadnought The Endless |
| Dream Evil Evilized |
| Dream Evil United |
| Dream Evil In The Night |
| Dream the Electric Sleep American Mystic |
| Dream Theater When Dream And Day Unite |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Unpopular opinion time....rI enjoyed The Astonishing as much as I did this effort, but Distance Over Time feels more like a musical comeback for the band. |
| Dream Theater A View From The Top Of The World |
| Dreariness Before We Vanish |
| Drew McDowall Agalma |
| Drift into Black Voices Beneath the Rubble |
| Dropdead Dropdead 2020 |
| Drott Orcus |
| Drott Troll |
| Drown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the Soul |
| Drowned Procul His |
| Drudensang Tuiflsrijtt |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| Drudkh All Belong To The Night |
| Drug Cult Drug Cult |
| Druid Lord Relics of the Dead |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain |
| Duivel Tirades Uit De Hel |
| Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists |
| DunkelNacht Sombre Nuit |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dvne Voidkind |
| Dwaal Never Enough |
| Dwarrowdelf Of Dying Lights |
| Dwarrowdelf Evenstar |
| Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With |
| Dymna Lotva The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood |
| Dynfari Vegferð Tímans |
| A very pleasant album to listen to, especially for those who love atmospheric black metal/post-rock/ambient, but the one thing which stopped from liking it any more was the fact that most of the songs never really exploded like I expected them to. That said, the highlights of the album itself are definitely in the three-part title track at the end, combining wispy atmosphere and slight psychadelic flourishes into a half-hour opus. That's essentially as ambitious as Dynfari get here. |
| Dynfari The Four Doors of the Mind |
| Dynfari Myrkurs Er Þörf |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might |
| Dysrhythmia The Veil Of Control |
| Dysrhythmia Coffin of Conviction |
| Dysylumn Occultation |
| Dysylumn Cosmogonie |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| E-L-R Mænad |
| E-L-R Vexier |
| Eagle Twin The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) |
| Eagles Eagles |
| Eagles On The Border |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| Early Moods Early Moods |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly |
| Earth and Pillars Earth I |
| Earth Electric Vol.1: Solar |
| Earth Rot Renascentia |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity |
| Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons |
| Earthrise Until We Rest Beneath the Winter Way |
| Earthshine My Bones Shall Rest Upon The Mountain |
| Earthside Let The Truth Speak |
| Eastern High Halo |
| Eave Fervor |
| Echushkya Twilight Murmuration |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Ef We Salute You, You and You |
| Effluence Necrobiology |
| Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss |
| Einvigi Monokroma |
| Elastica Elastica |
| Eldamar/Dreams of Nature Split |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature |
| Electric Citizen Sateen |
| Electric Citizen Higher Time |
| Elitist (DK) A Mirage of Grandeur |
| Ellende Todbringer |
| Ellende Lebensnehmer |
| Ellende Triebe |
| Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft |
| Ellende Todbringerin |
| Ellesmere (ITA) Stranger Skies |
| Elminster Palantíri |
| Elsiane E L S I A N E |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake |
| Elvenking Era |
| Elvenking Reader Of The Runes – Divination |
| Embrace Of Thorns Scorn Aesthetics |
| Embrace Of Thorns Entropy Dynamics |
| Embrace the Dawn The Effigist |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow |
| Empire State Bastard Rivers Of Heresy |
| Empress Premonition |
| Empress AD Still Life Moving Fast |
| Emptiness Not For Music |
| Empty Yard Experiment (E.Y.E.) Kallisti |
| Empusae Lueur |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Emyn Muil Afar Angathfark |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Endless Forms Most Gruesome Endless Forms Most Gruesome |
| Endless, Nameless Living Without |
| Endon Through The Mirror |
| Endonomos Endonomos II - Enlightenment |
| Endseeker Mount Carcass |
| Endstille DetoNation |
| Enfold Darkness Adversary Omnipotent |
| English Dogs Where Legend Began |
| Enisum Forgotten Mountains |
| Enshine Transcending Fire |
| Ensiferum Thalassic |
| Ensiferum Winter Storm |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Ensnared Dysangelium |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen |
| Entheos (USA) Dark Future |
| Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All |
| Entheos (USA) An End to Everything |
| Enthroned Sovereigns |
| Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan |
| Enthroned Obsidium |
| Enthroned Cold Black Suns |
| Entrails (SWE) World Inferno |
| Entrails (SWE) Obliteration |
| Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff |
| Envy Atheist's Cornea |
| Eoront Another Realm |
| Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs |
| Epica Omega |
| Epiphanic Truth Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species |
| Epitaphe II |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Equipoise Demiurgus |
| Erdve Savigaila |
| Ereb Altor Ulfven |
| Ereb Altor Järtecken |
| Ereb Altor Vargtimman |
| Ereb Altor Eldens Boning |
| Eremit Bearer of Many Names |
| Eric Wagner In The Lonely Light Of Mourning |
| Ernia How To Deal With Life And Fail |
| Erosion (CAN) Maximum Suffering |
| Esben and the Witch Hold Sacred |
| Eskapism Ancient Songs of The Wind |
| Esoctrilihum Funeral |
| Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine |
| Esthesis Watching Worlds Collide |
| Eternal Helcaraxe Drown in Ash |
| Eternal Rot Moribound |
| Eternal Torment Blind to Reality |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Ether Coven The Relationship Between the Hammer and the Nail |
| Eths Ankaa |
| Eunuchs Harbour Century |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| Evangelist (USA) Omen Ex Simulacra |
| This album really surprised me, though I didn't quite know what to expect before pressing play. For me the real problem here is how clouded everything sounds, but once you listen to the album a few times I guess you can get used to it. Musically it's pretty full on as far as the extreme metal part of the musicianship is concerned, and the background noises such as screeching violins, tinkling keyboards or orgasmic (?) female moans and wails add extra effect. I only wish the production could be a bit clearer to truly emphasize these little sounds. |
| Ever Forthright Techinflux |
| Everest Queen Murmurations |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Evile Infected Nations |
| Evile Hell Unleashed |
| Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind |
| Evoke (NO) Seeds of Death |
| Evoken Hypnagogia |
| Ewigkeit Cosmic Man |
| Excarnated Entity Mass Grave Horizon |
| Execration (NOR) Return to the Void |
| Executioner's Mask Winterlong |
| Exgenesis Solve et Coagula |
| Exhorder The Law |
| Exhumed Death Revenge |
| Exhumed Horror |
| Exhumed To The Dead |
| Exhumed/Gruesome Twisted Horror |
| Existem Mantle |
| Exmortus The Sound of Steel |
| Exocrine Legend |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A |
| Exodus Impact Is Imminent |
| Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh |
| Exodus Persona Non Grata |
| Extreme Noise Terror Extreme Noise Terror |
| Exumer Fire and Damnation |
| Exumer Possessed by Fire |
| Eye Eater Alienate |
| Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering |
| Eyemaster Conjuration of Flesh |
| Eyes (DK) Congratulations |
| Faal Desolate Grief |
| Face Down Mindfield |
| Face Off Massive |
| Faceless Burial Speciation |
| Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration |
| Faidra Militant : Penitent : Triumphant |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Falaise After All This Time |
| Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Fall of Messiah Senicarne |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Fallujah Empyrean |
| False Portent |
| Famyne II: The Ground Below |
| Fange Pudeur |
| Fange Privation |
| Far Beyond The End of My Road |
| Farsot Fail·Lure |
| Farsot Life Promised Death |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray |
| Fates Warning Long Day Good Night |
| Father Befouled Desolate Gods |
| Father Befouled Immaculate Pain |
| Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls |
| Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear Factory Transgression |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Feared Vinter |
| Feared Svart |
| Feed Me To The Waves Apart |
| Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought |
| Fellwarden Legend: Forged in Defiance |
| Fen Carrion Skies |
| Fen The Dead Light |
| Feral Lord Vires in Absoluto |
| Festerday Iihtallan |
| Fides Inversa Rite of Inverse Incarnation |
| Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim |
| Fields of the Nephilim Dawnrazor |
| Filter Crazy Eyes |
| Filth is Eternal Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal |
| Finntroll Ur jordens djup |
| Finntroll Midnattens widunder |
| Finntroll Visor om slutet |
| Finntroll Vredesvävd |
| Finsterforst Jenseits |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November |
| Firespawn The Reprobate |
| Firespawn Abominate |
| Firewind Burning Earth |
| Firewind The Premonition |
| Firewind Immortals |
| Firienholt White Frost and Elder Blood |
| Firtan Okeanos |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void |
| Five The Hierophant Apeiron |
| Flames of Hell Fire and Steel |
| Fleetwood Mac Then Play On |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night |
| Fleetwood Mac Kiln House |
| Fleetwood Mac Future Games |
| Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees |
| Fleetwood Mac Mystery to Me |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Floating in Space Liftoff |
| Flooding Silhouette Machine |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The End of Chaos |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water |
| Flub Dream Worlds |
| Fluisteraars Bloem |
| Fluisteraars De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel I: Harslo |
| Flyying Colours You Never Know |
| Focus X |
| Folterkammer (USA) Weibermacht |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| For Giants You Are The Universe |
| Fordomth Is, Qui Mortem Audit |
| Foreseen (FIN) Grave Danger |
| Forevermore Integral |
| Forgotten Tomb Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love |
| Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing |
| Forgotten Tomb Nihilistic Estrangement |
| Forgotten Tomb Nightfloating |
| Forhist Forhist |
| Forlesen Black Terrain |
| Forming the Void Rift |
| Forn Rites of Despair |
| Forn Repercussions of the Self |
| Fortid Narkissos |
| Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs |
| Fossilization Leprous Daylight |
| Four Stroke Baron Data Diamond |
| Four Stroke Baron Planet Silver Screen |
| Four Stroke Baron Classics |
| Fractal Gates One with Dawn |
| Fractal Generator Convergence |
| Fractal Universe Rhizomes of Insanity |
| Fragment Soul Galois Paradox |
| Frailty Tumši Ūdeņi |
| Frank Zappa Chunga's Revenge |
| Frank Zappa Zoot Allures |
| Frank Zappa You Are What You Is |
| Frayle 1692 |
| Free Heartbreaker |
| Freedom Call Eternity |
| Freedom of Fear Carpathia |
| Friendship (JPN) Hatred |
| Friisk …Un Torügg Bleev Blot Sand |
| Froglord Army Of Frogs |
| From The Vastland Taurvi |
| Frowning Extinct |
| Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods |
| Fuath II |
| Fuck the Facts Desire Will Rot |
| Fucked Up Oberon |
| Fudge Tunnel Hate Songs In E Minor |
| Well, it's nice to discover another band from my city (Nottingham). Listening to this debut album by Fudge Tunnel, I can see a lot of similarities to Clucth's early days and Acid Bath, but this certainly brings the grit and the riff power. I believe the album really picks up during the second half, as the first few songs didn't grab my attention as much. I like the more metallic, extreme side of songs like "Soap and Water" and "Tweezers" and that cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" is pretty ace. Only thing that dragged the overall quality down a bit for me was how the vocals sometimes seem a little too restrained (not as prominent as the instrumentation if I'm honest), but it's generally a really good sludgy piece of music. |
| Fudge Tunnel Creep Diets |
| Just as good as the band's debut, but I think this album has a few more hook-laden songs, namely on opener "Grey" and "Grit" amongst others. The band made an official video for "Grey", and it seems to match the gritty nature of the song quite well. |
| Fukpig Bastards |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Full of Hell Coagulated Bliss |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow |
| Funeral Gospel of Bones |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity |
| Funeral Harvest Redemptio |
| Funeral Leech The Illusion of Time |
| Funeral Oppression The Eternal Revival |
| Funeral Storm Chthonic Invocations |
| Fuoco Fatuo (ITA2) Backwater |
| Furia Huta Luna |
| Fuzz Fuzz |
| Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent |
| Fyrnask Fórn |
| Fyrnask VII - Kenoma |
| Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited |
| Gadget The Great Destroyer |
| Gaerea Limbo |
| Gaerea Mirage |
| Galdr Galdr |
| Galley Beggar Silence and Tears |
| Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space |
| To me this is the band's best album by far, and that's probably because I think it's more concise than Gama Bomb's other albums. Just short enough to be enjoyed, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Nothing out of the ordinary for this style of thrash either, but then that's exactly what Gama Bomb intended. Maybe. |
| Gamma Ray No World Order |
| Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius |
| Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead |
| Garden of Worm Endless Garden |
| Garoted Bewitchment Of The Dark Ages |
| Gary Moore G-Force |
| Gary Moore Back On The Streets |
| Gary Moore Blues For Greeny |
| Gary Moore After Hours |
| Gary Moore After The War |
| Gary Moore Wild Frontier |
| Gary Moore Run For Cover |
| Gary Moore Corridors Of Power |
| Gary Moore Power Of The Blues |
| Gary Moore Close As You Get |
| Gary Moore Bad For You Baby |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores |
| Gates Of Doom Aquileia Mater Aeterna |
| Gateway Galgendood |
| Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) " |
| Gaupa Myriad |
| Gazpacho Soyuz |
| Gazpacho Fireworker |
| Gehennah Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die |
| Genesis Trespass |
| Genesis ...And Then There Were Three... |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Gentle Giant Interview |
| George Thorogood and the Destroyers The Hard Stuff |
| Germ Escape |
| Gevurah Hallelujah! |
| Gevurah Sulphur Soul |
| Gevurah Gehinnom |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| Ghost Bath Self Loather |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm |
| Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul |
| Ghost Iris Comatose |
| GHOSTEMANE Anti-Icon |
| Ghostlimb Difficult Loves |
| Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4 |
| Ghosts of Glaciers Eternal |
| Gillian Carter Salvation Through Misery |
| Trip back to the early 00's metalcore/post-hardcore/screamo/whateveryouwanttocallitcore scene, and for me, a really enjoyable listen. |
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines |
| Girih Ikigai |
| Girlschool Screaming Blue Murder |
| By far the stand-out highlights of this album are the title track and "Hellrazor", but the album in general does seem to be a little more 'diverse'. Not so much that the band are taking a deliberate turn in the opposite musical direction, but it's somewhat easier to identify the NWOBHM-influenced songs from the punkier, rockier tunes like "Take it from Me" and "It Turns Your Head Around". I actually like the vocals here for the most part, though the nasally delivery on "Hellrazor" is pretty annoying. All in all, another solid 80s output from Girlschool. |
| Girlschool Hit And Run |
| All in all on par with the band's debut, though I prefer the vocal delivery of this album and the instrumental performance of Demolition. Nonetheless, there's still some really decent hard rock/metal riffage going on here, specifically in songs like the title track and "The Hunter". |
| Girlschool Demolition |
| Giver Where the Cycle Breaks |
| Givre Destin Messianique |
| Gjendod Nedstigning |
| Gjendod Livskramper |
| Glaciation Ultime Éclat |
| Gleb Kolyadin The Outland |
| Gloosh Sylvan Coven |
| Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife |
| Gloson Grimen |
| Gloson The Rift |
| Gnaw Cutting Pieces |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Abyss of Longing Throats |
| Gnaw Their Tongues The Cessation Of Suffering |
| Gnipahalan I Nordisk Vredeslusta |
| Gnoomes Ax Ox |
| Gnosis (USA-FL) Omens from the Dead Realm |
| Goatess Purgatory Under New Management |
| Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen |
| Goatsnake Black Age Blues |
| Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God |
| Goatwhore Blood For The Master |
| Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless |
| Goatwhore Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven |
| God Alone (IRE) ETC |
| God Dethroned The World Ablaze |
| God Dethroned Illuminati |
| God Dethroned The Judas Paradox |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 |
| Godeater Vespera |
| Goden (US) Beyond Darkness |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Godflesh Hymns |
| Godflesh Selfless |
| Godflesh Us and Them |
| Godflesh Purge |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead |
| Godsticks This Is What A Winner Looks Like |
| Godthrymm Reflections |
| Godthrymm Distortions |
| Goetia (USA-DC) Tomb Essence |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gojira Magma |
| Golden Ashes (NL) A Lightless Christ Shuns The Crown Of Divinity |
| Golden Earring Prisoner of the Night |
| Golden Earring To the Hilt |
| Golden Earring Switch |
| Golden Earring Seven Tears |
| Golgata Tempel |
| Golgata Ur Eld Och Aska |
| Golgotha (ESP) Spreading the Wings of Hope |
| Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin |
| Gom Jabbar Obsidian Black Carrion |
| Gong Camembert Electrique |
| Gong Downwind |
| Gong Zero to Infinity |
| Gong 2032 |
| Gong Unending Ascending |
| They've done better albums, but Gong simply never seem to stop being creative, even 50 odd years after their formation. Sure, Daevid Allen will always be the godfather of this eccentric project, but it's a legacy that continues to glide from star to star. |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone |
| Gorephilia In The Eye Of Nothing |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Another great Gorgoroth album which is at least on par with the band's debut, but the only thing that bothers me is the really short runtime-the album almost feels like it's about to end when in fact it's just started. "Sorg" is nice enough to end things with, but it didn't really strike me as the sort of "album closer", more like just another song to add to the rest here. So yeah, I guess you could say it's anti-climactic, but then "Gorgoroth" and "Possessed (By Satan)" seem to make up for it. |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer |
| Gorod The Orb |
| Gospel The Loser |
| GosT Possessor |
| Gozu Equilibrium |
| Gra Lycaon |
| Grab Zeitlang |
| Grabak Agash Daeva |
| Graceless Chants from Purgatory |
| Grails Anches En Maat |
| Grand Funk Railroad Good Singin', Good Playin' |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Lives |
| Grat Strigoi The Prophetic Silence |
| Gravdal Kadaverin |
| Grave Endless Procession of Souls |
| Grave As Rapture Comes |
| Grave Into the Grave |
| Grave You'll Never See... |
| Grave Burial Ground |
| Grave Desecrator Dust To Lust |
| Grave Desecrator Immundissime Spiritus |
| Grave Digger Tunes Of War |
| Grave Digger Rheingold |
| Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown |
| Grave Digger Ballads of a Hangman |
| Grave Heresy Incineration Victory |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities |
| Grave Pilgrim Molten Hands Reach West |
| Grave Pilgrim The Bigotry of Purpose |
| Grave Ritual Morbid Throne |
| Grave Upheaval (untitled) |
| Gravecrusher Resurrection of Deathly Visions |
| GraveRipper Seasons Dreaming Death |
| Gravespawn Scourge of the Realm |
| Gravetemple Impassable Fears |
| Graveworm Fragments Of Death |
| Graveworm As The Angels Reach The Beauty |
| Graveworm Scourge of Malice |
| Graveyard (ESP) Hold Back the Dawn |
| Gravkvade Prolog |
| Grayceon IV |
| Great White Great White |
| Great White Psycho City |
| Great White Let It Rock |
| Great Wide Nothing Hymns for Hungry Spirits Vol. II |
| Greber Fright Without |
| Green Lung Black Harvest |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| Greg Puciato Mirrorcell |
| Grey Aura Zwart vierkant |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper |
| Grieving (UK) Everything Goes Right, All At Once |
| Griffon De Republica |
| Grift Arvet |
| Grift Dolt Land |
| Grim (JPN) Therianthropy |
| Grim Ravine Upon the Darkest Shores |
| Grim Reaper See You In Hell |
| Grim Reaper Rock You To Hell |
| Grima Will of the Primordial |
| Grima Frostbitten |
| Groza Nadir |
| Gruesome Savage Land |
| Gumm Slogan Machine |
| Guranfoe Gumbo Gumbo |
| Guruh Gipsy Guruh Gipsy |
| Gutter Instinct Age Of The Frantics |
| Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons |
| Gutvoid Breathing Obelisk |
| GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe |
| GWAR America Must Be Destroyed |
| GWAR Violence Has Arrived |
| GWAR War Party |
| GWAR Beyond Hell |
| GWAR Lust in Space |
| GWAR Battle Maximus |
| Haadeen Marraskuu |
| Haast's Eagled II: For Mankind |
| Haavard Haavard |
| Habitants Alma |
| Hadal Maw Charlatan |
| Hades Almighty Pyre Era, Black! |
| Haggard Cat Common Sense Holiday |
| Hail Spirit Noir Mayhem In Blue |
| Haken Vector |
| Haken Fauna |
| Halestorm Halestorm |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| Hallatar No Stars Upon the Bridge |
| Halphas Sermons Of The Black Flames |
| Hamferd Támsins likam |
| Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk |
| HammerFall Crimson Thunder |
| Hammers Of Misfortune Dead Revolution |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted |
| Hands Up Who Wants To Die Nil All |
| Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake |
| Hanging Garden Neither Moth nor Rust |
| Hanging Garden The Garden |
| Hangman's Chair A Loner |
| Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats |
| Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat |
| Hanoi Rocks Back to Mystery City |
| Hanoi Rocks Two Steps from the Move |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Common Suffering |
| Harsh Realm Death Carries On |
| Hasslig Apex Predator |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| Hasturian Vigil Unveiling the Brac'thal |
| Hate Auric Gates of Veles |
| Hate Rugia |
| Hate Eternal Infernus |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands |
| Hate Forest Hour Of The Centaur |
| Hate Forest Justice |
| Hatis Noit Aura |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Luminous Eyes |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Burst into Flame |
| Haunted Horses The Worst has Finally Happened |
| Haunted Shores Void |
| Havok Burn |
| A great, solid thrash debut done with real conviction and prowess. Reminds me at times of early Death Angel, in a good way of course. Best songs for me would be "Identity Theft" and "Category of the Dead". |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| Another very strong thrash record. Production is more audible than on the band's debut but the formula is much the same, maybe a couple of songs demonstrate more complex musicianship but the rest is no-frills thrash pretty much. Highlights: "No Amnesty" and "D.O.A.". |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä |
| Hawkwind Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music |
| Not their best, but i still enjoy most of the songs here. Lighter than what they did before though if im honest. |
| Hawkwind Hawkwind |
| Hawkwind 25 Years On |
| Hawkwind The Chronicle of the Black Sword |
| Hawkwind Onward |
| Hawkwind The Future Never Waits |
| Haxanu Totenpass |
| Haxenzijrkell Portal |
| Hazel English Summer Nights |
| Head with Wings Without Intervention |
| Heart Little Queen |
| Heart Bebe Le Strange |
| Heart Jupiter's Darling |
| Heaven's Cry Outcast |
| Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics |
| Heavy Temple Lupi Amoris |
| Hecate Enthroned Dark Requiems And The Unsilent Massacre |
| Hecate Enthroned Embrace Of The Godless Aeon |
| Hegemon Sidereus Nuncius |
| Hegemone Voyance |
| Hasn't quite got the edge of its fantastic predecessor, but listening to this at the right time of day can still be quite the experience. |
| Heidevolk Vuur Van Verzet |
| Heimland Forfedrenes Taarer |
| Hekseblad Kaer Morhen |
| Helevorn Aamamata |
| Helevorn Espectres |
| Helfro Helfro |
| Helheim Woduridar |
| Helicon God Intentions |
| Helix Wild In The Streets |
| Hell Fire Mania |
| Hell Is Other People Moirae |
| Hell Militia Hollow Void |
| Hellbore Panopticon |
| Hellcrash Demonic Assassinatiön |
| Helleruin Devils, Death and Dark Arts |
| Hellions Indian Summer |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell |
| Helloween Master Of The Rings |
| Helloween 7 Sinners |
| Helloween Helloween |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim And Withered Hags |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca |
| Helpless Debt |
| Helrunar Vanitas Vanitatvm |
| Hemelbestormer Aether |
| Hemlokk Hares & Hedges |
| Hemotoxin When Time Becomes Loss |
| Henget Beyond North Star |
| Herder Fergean |
| Here Lies Man Ritual Divination |
| Here Lies Man No Ground To Walk Upon |
| Heresiarch Edifice |
| Heretic Cult Redeemer Flagellum Universalis |
| Heretoir Nightsphere |
| Heriot Devoured by the Mouth of Hell |
| Hermodr Forest Sky |
| Herod Iconoclast |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Awake For Everything |
| Hesitation Wounds (LA) Chicanery |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago |
| High on Fire Cometh the Storm |
| High Parasite Forever We Burn |
| Aaron Stainthorpe proving he has such a great vocal range here, and the songs themselves, whilst as straightforward as it can get, are full of hooks. Replayability level high, but really grows on you too. |
| High Priest Of Saturn Son of Earth and Sky |
| High Pulp Days in the Desert |
| Higher Power Soul Structure |
| Hilde Mistral Perdant |
| Himinbjorg Wyrd |
| Hinayana Shatter And Fall |
| Hippotraktor Stasis |
| Hiraki Stumbling Through The Walls |
| Ho99o9 United States Of Horror |
| Hobbs' Angel of Death Heaven Bled |
| Hollywood Burns Invaders |
| Holy Fawn Dimensional Bleed |
| Holy Grail Times of Pride and Peril |
| Homecoming Those We Knew |
| Homeskin Itch Ecstasy |
| Hope Drone Void Lustre |
| Horisont About Time |
| Horn Turm am Hang |
| Horn Mohngang |
| Horn Verzet |
| Horn Daudswiärk |
| Horna Hengen tulet |
| A simplistic, raw black metal record which somehow never fails to be consistent in its delivery. The first two songs are notably the weakest, but from that point onwards the album seems to take a more maturer songwriting ethic into consideration, even improving on the vocals and general musicianship which is certainly rife in songs like "Puhdas" and "Sodan Roihu" amongst others. Whilst it does sometimes prove a little uninspired, the album should please fans of black metal if nobody else. |
| Horndal Lake Drinker |
| Horndal Head Hammer Man |
| HORNSS No Blood, No Sympathy |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Horse Lords Comradely Objects |
| Horsewhip Consume and Burn |
| Hostis Hostis |
| Hotel Lux Hands Across the Creek |
| Hotel of the Laughing Tree Faraway Friends |
| Hoth Oathbreaker |
| Hoth Astral Necromancy |
| Houle Ciel Cendre Et Misère Noire |
| Hour of Penance Regicide |
| Hourglass Voids and Visions |
| House of Atreus From the Madness of Ixion |
| Howling Giant The Space Between Worlds |
| Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore |
| Hrizg Damnatio Memoriae |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry |
| Hulder The Eternal Fanfare |
| Hulder Verses In Oath |
| Human Impact Gone Dark |
| Human Serpent For I, The Misanthropist |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal |
| Hundred Year Old Man Breaching |
| Huntress Spell Eater |
| Huntsmen American Scrap |
| Huntsmen The Dry Land |
| Hussar All-Consuming Hunger |
| Hymn Breach Us |
| Hyperdontia Deranged |
| Hypocrisy Osculum Obscenum |
| Hypocrisy Penetralia |
| Hypocrisy Into the Abyss |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure |
| Hyrgal Hyrgal |
| I Am Destruction Nascency |
| I Am The Night While The Gods Are Sleeping |
| I Built the Sky The Quiet Place Away |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved |
| IAMFIRE From Ashes |
| iamthemorning Belighted |
| iamthemorning The Bell |
| Ian Anderson Rupi's Dance |
| Ian Anderson Homo Erraticus |
| Ibaraki Rashomon |
| Iced Earth Dystopia |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden |
| Iced Earth Incorruptible |
| Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant |
| Idolatria Tetrabestiarchy |
| IDYLLS The Barn |
| If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World |
| Ignea The Realms of Fire and Death |
| Ignis Haereticum Autocognition Of Light |
| Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion |
| Igorrr Savage Sinusoid |
| IJdelheid Unholy |
| Ikarie Arde |
| Iku-Turso Into Dawnless Realms |
| Iku-Turso Ikuinen Kirous |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons |
| Ildaruni Beyond Unseen Gateways |
| Ildganger For Hver Tanke Mister Sjælen Atter Farve |
| Ill Considered Precipice |
| Ill Tidings Hymns to Demise |
| Illudium Ash of the Womb |
| Illyria Wanderlust |
| Ilsa Corpse Fortress |
| Iluiteq The Light Inside, The Dark Outside |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods |
| Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult |
| Impaled Nazarene Suomi Finland Perkele |
| Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma |
| Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz |
| Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear |
| Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia |
| Impaled Nazarene Nihil |
| Impaled Nazarene Manifest |
| Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon |
| Imperial Crystalline Entombment Ancient Glacial Resurgence |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| Imperialist Zenith |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dammerung der Szenarien |
| Imperium Dekadenz Meadows of Nostalgia |
| Imperium Dekadenz Into Sorrow Evermore |
| Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience |
| Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis |
| Implore Depopulation |
| Implore Alienated Despair |
| Imprecation In Nomine Diaobli |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote |
| Impureza La Caída de Tonatiuh |
| In Aphelion Reaperdawn |
| In Aphelion Moribund |
| In Cauda Venenum G.O.H.E. |
| In Cauda Venenum In Cauda Venenum |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Lingua Mortua Bellowing Sea - Racked by Tempest |
| In Lingua Mortua Salon Des Refuses |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil |
| In Reverence The Selected Breed |
| In the Woods... Pure |
| In the Woods... Cease The Day |
| In the Woods... Heart Of The Ages |
| In the Woods... Dīversum |
| In Torment I Die Universae Naturae Theatrum |
| In Torment I Die The Unfathomable Darkness of the Fall |
| In Tormentata Quiete Krononota |
| In Twilight's Embrace Vanitas |
| In Twilight's Embrace Lifeblood |
| In Vain (NO) Currents |
| In Vain (NO) Solemn |
| Inanimate Existence The Masquerade |
| Incandescence Le Coeur de l'Homme |
| Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities |
| Incantation Unholy Deification |
| Inconcessus Lux Lucis The Crowning Quietus |
| Inexorum Moonlit Navigation |
| Inexorum Equinox Vigil |
| Infected Dead Archaic Malevolence |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant |
| Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth |
| Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis |
| Infestus Thrypsis |
| Infinity The Untamed Hunger |
| Ingested Ashes Lie Still |
| Ingested Call of the Void |
| Ingested The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams |
| Ingurgitating Oblivion Ontology of Nought |
| Inherits the Void The Impending Fall Of The Stars |
| Inherits the Void Scars Of Yesteryears |
| Inhuman Nature Under the Boot |
| Innumerable Forms Punishment in Flesh |
| Innumerable Forms Philosophical Collapse |
| Inquinamentum 8342 |
| Inquisitor Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery |
| Insect Ark Raw Blood Singing |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Insomnium Argent Moon |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk |
| Insurrection Obsolescence |
| Integrity/Krieg Split |
| Inter Arma The Cavern |
| Internal Bleeding Corrupting Influence |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| Intervals The Way Forward |
| Intonate Severed Within |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Inverloch Distance | Collapsed |
| Invocation (CL) Attunement to Death |
| Invocation (CL) "The Archaic Sanctuary" (Ritual Body Postures) |
| Invultation Feral Legion |
| Iohannes Jacob's Ladder |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone |
| Iotunn Kinship |
| Irae (PT) Lurking in the Depths |
| Irdorath The Final Sin |
| Iress Sleep Now, In Reverse |
| Irist Order Of The Mind |
| Irist Gloria |
| Iron Monkey 9-13 |
| Iron Monkey Spleen & Goad |
| Iron Reagan The Tyranny Of Will |
| Iron Reagan Crossover Ministry |
| Iron Void Excalibur |
| Irreversible Mechanism Immersion |
| Isenordal Requiem for Eiréné |
| Iskald Nedom Og Nord |
| Iskandr Vergezicht |
| Iskandr Spiritus Sylvestris |
| Iskra Ruins |
| Isole Dystopia |
| Isolert Wounds of Desolation |
| Iterum Nata Trench of Loneliness |
| Ithaca The Language of Injury |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hardanger |
| Ixion L'adieu aux étoiles |
| Izthmi Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind |
| Jakob Sines |
| James Norbert Ivanyi The Sine Imitation |
| Jan Dukes de Grey Mice and Rats in the Loft |
| Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Spirit Knife |
| Jess And The Ancient Ones The Horse And Other Weird Tales |
| Jess And The Ancient Ones Vertigo |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came |
| Jesus Piece Only Self |
| Jethro Tull This Was |
| Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene |
| JFDR Museum |
| Jinjer King of Everything |
| Jo Quail The Cartographer |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Job For A Cowboy Moon Healer |
| Johansson and Speckmann Mask of the Treacherous |
| John Frum A Stirring In The Noos |
| John Ghost Thin Air, Mirror Land |
| John Petrucci Terminal Velocity |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere |
| Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow |
| Jonathan Personne Jonathan Personne |
| Jord Tundra |
| Jordfast Av Stoft |
| Jordsjo Salighet |
| Joyfultalk Familiar Science |
| Judas Priest Defenders Of The Faith |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Judicator Let There Be Nothing |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light |
| Jupiterian Protosapien |
| Just Before Dawn A War Too Far |
| Just Mustard Heart Under |
| Kadabra Ultra |
| Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast |
| Kaevum Natur |
| Kairo After Forever |
| Kall Brand |
| This album can get a bit all over the place at times, and the vocals a little ropey, but generally it seems expansive and forward-thinking enough to carry the lengthier songs to a fine ending. That's without mentioning the often interesting and charming saxophone sections, which really come into their own whenever performed. This album is not without flaws, but also not without its charms either. |
| Kalmah Palo |
| Kalt Vindur Magna Mater |
| Kamaal Williams Stings |
| Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement |
| Kamelot The Awakening |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt |
| Kampfar Til Klovers Takt |
| Kanonenfieber Die Urkatastrophe |
| Kaoteon Kaoteon |
| Kapala (IND) Termination Apex |
| Karg Traktat |
| Karkaos Children of the Void |
| Kassad London Orbital |
| Kataan Kataan |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods |
| Katalepsy Gravenous Hour |
| Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est |
| Katatonia Tonight's Music |
| Katatonia The Fall Of Hearts |
| Katavasia Magnus Venator |
| Katavasia Invoking the Spirit of Doom |
| Kathaaria To Be Shunned By All … As Centres Of Pestilence |
| Katharos (SWE) Of Lineages Once Forgotten |
| Katharos XIII Chthonian Transmissions |
| Katie Kim Hour of the Ox |
| Katla Móðurástin |
| Katla Allt þetta Helvítis Myrkur |
| Kauan ATM Revised |
| Kaunis Kuolematon Mielenvalta |
| Kavus Torabi The Banishing |
| Kawir Exilasmos |
| Kawir Adrasteia |
| Kawir Kydoimos |
| Kayleth Space Muffin |
| Keep Happy In Here |
| Keep of Kalessin Epistemology |
| Keep of Kalessin Katharsis |
| Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams |
| KEN mode Loved |
| KEN mode Null |
| KEN mode Void |
| Keres (ITA) Homo Homini Lupus |
| Ketzer Cloud Collider |
| Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings |
| Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death |
| Khold Svartsyn |
| Khora Timaeus |
| Khorada Salt |
| Khors Where the Word Acquires Eternity |
| Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum |
| Kikagaku Moyo Kumoyo Island |
| Killing Joke What's THIS For...! |
| Killing Joke Pylon |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| Kilter The Suspended Woman |
| Kind Rocket Science |
| King Apathy Wounds |
| King Crimson THRAK |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Goat Debt Of Aeons |
| King of Asgard Karg |
| King of Asgard Svartrviðr |
| King Parrot Dead Set |
| King Parrot Ugly Produce |
| King Slender Gold Days |
| King Witch Body of Light |
| Kingcrow Hopium |
| Kings Destroy Fantasma Nera |
| Kings Rot At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness |
| Kintsukuroi About Emotions |
| Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion |
| Kjellvandertonbruket Fossils |
| Klabautamann Smaragd |
| Klone The Unseen |
| Knekelput Teloorgang |
| Knelt Rote Alterity |
| Kokoroko Could We Be More |
| Kold Intet Mere Er |
| Koldbrann Ingen Skånsel |
| KOLLAPS\E Phantom Centre |
| Kommandant Titan Hammer |
| Kontinuum No Need to Reason |
| Konvent Call Down The Sun |
| Korgonthurus XX |
| Korgonthurus Jumalhaaska |
| Korgull the Exterminator Sharpen Your Spikes |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift |
| Korn Requiem |
| Korpsesoturi Korpskrist |
| Kosmodome Kosmodome |
| Kostas Panagiotou Tor |
| Kostnateni Úpal |
| Krater Phrenesis |
| Krieg Transient |
| Krieg Ruiner |
| Krigsgrav Fires in the Fall |
| Krimh The Eternal Return |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury |
| Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned |
| Krisiun Mortem Solis |
| Kroh Altars |
| Krokodil (UK) Nachash |
| Krossfyre Rites of Extermination |
| Krvna The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal |
| Kultika Capricorn Wolves |
| Kungens Man Kungens Ljud & Bild |
| Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen |
| Kuolemanlaakso Kuusumu |
| Kvad So Old |
| Kvadrat The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion |
| Kvaen The Great Below |
| Kvaen The Formless Fires |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire |
| La Cachette Antiphonary For Songful Ghosts |
| Labirinto Divino Afflante Spiritu |
| Lacertilia We’re Already Inside Your Mind |
| Lacrimas Profundere Bleeding the Stars |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima |
| Lahmia Resilience |
| Lake of Tears Ominous |
| Lalu Paint the Sky |
| Lamp of Murmuur Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism |
| LANDMVRKS Fantasy |
| Languish Unworthy |
| Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation |
| Lantern (FIN) II: Morphosis |
| Lantern (FIN) Dimensions |
| Lanterns on the Lake Versions of Us |
| Lantlos Wildhund |
| Laster Ons Vrije Fatum |
| Laster Het wassen oog |
| Late Night Venture V: Bones of the Extinct |
| Latitudes Part Island |
| Laura Veirs Found Light |
| Laveda A Place You Grew Up In |
| Le Prochain Hiver Talvi |
| Le Temps du Loup Leteo |
| Leaving Time II |
| Lee McKinney Infinite Mind |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse |
| Lento Fourth |
| Leonov Wake |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Leprous Malina |
| Les Discrets Prédateurs |
| Lesoir Push Back the Horizon |
| Less Art Strangled Light |
| Lesser Glow Ruined |
| Lethian Dreams A Shadow Of Memories |
| Licho Ciuciubabka |
| Lies Abuse |
| Light of the Morning Star Charnel Noir |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire |
| Lihhamon Doctrine |
| Lik Misanthropic Breed |
| Lik Carnage |
| Lilla Veneda Lilla Veneda |
| Limbonic Art Spectre Abysm |
| Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze |
| Lindemann Skills In Pills |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY |
| Litosth Cesariana |
| Liv Kristine Vervain |
| Live Burial Curse of the Forlorn |
| Livgone Almost There |
| Living Gate Suffer As One |
| Living Hour Someday is Today |
| Livlos And Then There Were None |
| Lizzy Borden My Midnight Things |
| LLNN Deads |
| Lo! Vestigial |
| Lock Up Demonization |
| Locrian Infinite Dissolution |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless |
| Lonnie Holley Oh Me Oh My |
| Lord Belial Rapture |
| Lord Dying Poisoned Altars |
| Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum |
| Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence |
| Lord Vicar The Black Powder |
| Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel Polaris |
| Lost in Kiev Rupture |
| Lostregos Nai |
| Lotus Thief Oresteia |
| Lovebites Glory, Glory, to the World |
| Lovely Little Girls Effusive Supreme |
| Loviatar Lightless |
| Lowen Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran |
| Lower Automation Strobe Light Shadow Play |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer II |
| Lucifixion (USA) Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts |
| Lucifuge Infernal Power |
| Lucifuge Monoliths of Wrath |
| Lucius Fox Solastalgia |
| Lunar Chalice Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage |
| Lunar Mantra Genesis |
| Lunar Spells Sacraments of Necromantical Empires |
| Lungtoucher The Ninth Incantation |
| Lurk Aegis |
| Lustre (SWE) Blossom |
| Lvcifyre Sacrament |
| Lvcifyre The Broken Seal |
| Lycus Chasms |
| M-Opus At the Mercy of Manannán |
| Machinations of Fate Celestial Prophecies |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Mad Honey Satellite Aphrodite |
| Madder Mortem Marrow |
| These guys should be bigger in the progressive metal realm than they actually are. Everything just...fits so nicely. Undeniably heavy albeit smooth grooves, a vocal range proving so much more versatile and eccentric than you'd expect, melodies that haunt you for minutes on end...these aspects and more make Madder Mortem's latest full-length stand out in a year of already great prog metal-related records. A few "slower" songs stopped me from rating this higher in all honesty (I'm looking at you, "Stumble On"), but generally this is Madder Mortem pulling out all the stops once again.rStop listening to Oceans of Slumber guys, seriously get on this instead. |
| Madder Mortem Old Eyes, New Heart |
| Maere ...And The Universe Keeps Silent |
| Maggot Heart Dusk to Dusk |
| Maggot Heart Mercy Machine |
| Why yes, I do like to boogie to these tunes. The part of me that likes early Killing Joke is in love with some of these songs, but others do tend to get a bit ropey. |
| Magic Circle Departed Souls |
| Magick Touch Heads Have Got to Rock n' Roll |
| Magnum The Serpent Rings |
| Magnum Here Comes the Rain |
| Majestica Above the Sky |
| The first half is an impeccable mix of Freedom Call and mid-era (90s) Helloween/Gamma Ray. The second half overdoes the cheese. |
| Major Kong Doom Machine |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart |
| Malakhim Theion |
| MALCONFORT Humanism |
| Malice Divine Everlasting Ascendancy |
| Malignament Hypocrisis Absolution |
| Malist To Mantle the Rising Sun |
| Malist Karst Relict |
| Malist As I Become Darkness |
| Malleus The Fires of Heaven |
| Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne |
| Malokarpatan Vertumnus Caesar |
| Malthusian/Suffering Hour Time's Withering Shadow |
| Malum Night of the Luciferian Light |
| Mamaleek Vida Blue |
| Mammoth Caravan Frostbitten Galaxy |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt |
| Mammoth Grinder Undying Spectral Resonance |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Y Proffwyd Dwyll |
| Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard Yn Ol I Annwn |
| Manbryne Interregnum: O próbie wiary i jarzmie zwątpien |
| Manegarm Fornaldarsagor |
| Manfred Mann's Earth Band Nightingales & Bombers |
| Manii Innerst I Mørket |
| Mannveira Vitahringur |
| Mantar The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze |
| Maps Counter Melodies |
| Marbin Dirty Horse |
| Marche Funebre Einderlicht |
| Marduk Frontschwein |
| Great album for Marduk, though I think it would have been more beneficial to include fewer songs or shorter lengths. Highlights for me would be "Afrika" and "Doomsday Elite". |
| Marduk Memento Mori |
| Mare (NO) Ebony Tower |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mariachi El Bronx III |
| Mariana Semkina Sleepwalking |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Markgraf Hohenbaden |
| Marmozets The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets |
| Marrasmieli Martaiden mailta |
| Marriages Salome |
| Mars Red Sky The Task Eternal |
| Marty Friedman Wall of Sound |
| Martyrdod Elddop |
| Martyrdoom As Torment Prevails |
| Maruja Connla's Well |
| Maruta Remain Dystopian |
| Mary Halvorson Cloudward |
| Mask of Prospero Hiraeth |
| Massacre Resurgence |
| Master Boot Record Direct Memory Access |
| Master Boot Record Floppy Disk Overdrive |
| Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth |
| Mastiff Deprecipice |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mayhem Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando |
| Mélancolia HissThroughRottenTeeth |
| Me You Us Them Sound Confirms |
| Medico Peste ב :The Black Bile |
| Meer Wheels Within Wheels |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Melancholia Book of Ruination |
| Melankoli Wind |
| Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself |
| Memoriam Requiem for Mankind |
| Memoriam To the End |
| Menace Ruine Nekyia |
| Mephorash Krystl-Ah |
| Mercury Circle The Dawn of Vitriol |
| Merihem Incendiary Darkness |
| Merkabah (PL) Million Miles |
| Merrimack Omegaphilia |
| Merrimack Of Grace and Gravity |
| Mesarthim Arrival |
| Meshiaak Alliance of Thieves |
| Mesmur Chthonic |
| Messa Close |
| Messa Feast for Water |
| Methadone Skies Different Layers of Fear |
| Methadone Skies Spectres at Dawn |
| Methchrist Pestilential Warfare of the Black Flame |
| Metz Up On Gravity Hill |
| Mew And the Glass Handed Kites |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Mgla Presence |
| Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame |
| Mice on Stilts I am Proud of You |
| Midnight No Mercy for Mayhem |
| Midnight Sweet Death and Ecstasy |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy |
| Midnight Let There Be Witchery |
| Milanku A l'aube |
| Milly Eternal Ring |
| Mimorium Route of Haeresis |
| Minami Deutsch Fortune Goodies |
| Minas Morgul Nebelung |
| MindAhead 6119 Part 1 |
| Minenwerfer Alpenpässe |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw |
| Mirror (CYP) Pyramid of Terror |
| Mirrors for Psychic Warfare I See What I Became |
| Misanthropic War Utter Human Annihilation |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Misha Sultan Translucence |
| Misotheist For the Glory of Your Redeemer |
| Mist of Misery Severance |
| Mistral In the Throes of Losing Love |
| Mistur In Memoriam |
| Mithridatum Harrowing |
| Mizmor Prosaic |
| MMTH Infinite Heights |
| Mnajdra Mnajdra |
| Mo'ynoq Dreaming in a Dead Language |
| Mo'ynoq A Place for Ash |
| Modern Rites Endless |
| Molassess Through the Hollow |
| Mondo Drag The Occultation Of Light |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul |
| Mono OATH |
| Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae |
| Monolithe Zeta Reticuli |
| Monovoth Monovoth |
| Mons Veneris Inversados d'Um Abismo de Podridão |
| Mons Veneris Ascent Into Draconian Abyss |
| Monstrosity The Passage of Existence |
| Monument of Misanthropy Vile Postmortem Irrumatio |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph |
| Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Moonreich Amer |
| Moonshade As We Set the Skies Ablaze |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir |
| Moonspell Hermitage |
| Moor Heavy Heart |
| Moozoonsii Outward |
| Morbid Evils Deceases |
| Morbid Evils Supernaturals |
| Morbific Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm |
| Morbosidad Corona De Epidemia |
| Mord'A'Stigmata Hope |
| Mord'A'Stigmata Dreams of Quiet Places |
| Morgoth Ungod |
| Morgul Blade Heavy Metal Wraiths |
| Mork Katedralen |
| Mork Dypet |
| Mork Gryning Hinsides vrede |
| Morne To the Night Unknown |
| Morne Engraved With Pain |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World |
| Honestly, I thought the first two proper songs from this album were really bland, uninspired stuff. The cheesy symphonics didn't do much but annoy me even more, and the musicianship was too predictable to be called adventurous. Then somehow the band have a complete turnaround in terms of creativity and deliver one of the album's stand-out highlights, "Death is the Beginning". I think from this point on is where the band really show their strengths. At times I'm reminded of Karybdis in terms of musical technique and style, but this certainly turns out to be a very decent melodeath record. Pity that it starts in a boring way. |
| Morta Skuld Wounds Deeper Than Time |
| Morta Skuld Suffer for Nothing |
| Mortal Thrall A Path To Fire |
| Mortem (NOR) Ravnsvart |
| Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths |
| Mortiferum Preserved in Torment |
| Mortiis The Great Deceiver |
| Mortiis The Smell Of Rain |
| Morwinyon Wastelands |
| Mossgiver The Song Among Branches |
| Mother of Graves Where the Shadows Adorn |
| Mother of Graves The Periapt Of Absence |
| Mother of Millions Orbit |
| Motorhead The Wörld Is Yours |
| Motorowl Atlas |
| Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts |
| Motorpsycho Yay! |
| Mountaineer Giving Up the Ghost |
| Mountaineer Dawn and All That Follows |
| Mournful Congregation The Exuviae Of Gods - Part I |
| Mournful Congregation The Incubus Of Karma |
| Mournful Congregation The Exuviae Of Gods - Part II |
| Mourning Dawn The Foam of Despair |
| Mr. Bison Seaward |
| Mulla جن |
| Municipal Waste The Last Rager |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last |
| Murg Strävan |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Mutilation Rites Harbinger |
| Mutilation Rites Chasm |
| Mutoid Man Bleeder |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion |
| My Silent Wake Lost in Memories, Lost in Grief |
| My Sleeping Karma Atma |
| My Ticket Home Unreal |
| Myrath Legacy |
| Myrkur Mareridt |
| Myrkur Folkesange |
| Mysteria Mystica Aeterna The Temple of Eosphoros |
| Mystifier Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia |
| Mystras Castles Conquered And Reclaimed |
| NAAT NAAT |
| NAAT Fallen Oracles |
| Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer |
| Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind |
| Nachtmystium Blight Privilege |
| Nameless Mist Lifeless |
| NAMI The Eternal Light of the Unconscious Mind |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic... |
| Napoleon Newborn Mind |
| Narrow Head 12th House Rock |
| Narrow Head Moments of Clarity |
| Nat Birchall Afro Trane |
| Nattehimmel Mourningstar |
| Nattverd I Helvetes Forakt |
| Naut Hunt |
| Naxatras IV |
| Naxen Towards the Tomb of Times |
| Naxen Descending Into A Deeper Darkness |
| Neal Morse The Grand Experiment |
| Nebelkrahe Ephemer |
| Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére |
| Nechochwen Kanawha Black |
| Neck of the Woods The Passenger |
| Necroblood Collapse of the Human Race |
| Necrofier Prophecies of Eternal Darkness |
| Necrofier Burning Shadows in the Southern Night |
| Necromancing the Stone Jewel of the Vile |
| Necromantia To the Depths We Descend... |
| Necromutilator Oath Of Abhorrence |
| Necronautical Slain In The Spirit |
| Necronautical The Endurance at Night |
| Necronomicon (CAN) Unus |
| Necropanther Betrayal |
| Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend |
| Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned |
| Necrophobic In the Twilight Grey |
| Necrot Blood Offerings |
| Necrovation Storm the Void / Starving Grave |
| Necrowretch Satanic Slavery |
| Necrowretch The Ones From Hell |
| Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End |
| Needless The Cosmic Cauldron |
| Negativa (ESP) 04 |
| Negator Vnitas Pvritas Existentia |
| Nekrogoblikon Power |
| Nekromantheon Visions of Trismegistos |
| Nekrovault Totenzug: Festering Peregrination |
| Nektar A Tab in the Ocean |
| Nekus Sepulchral Divination |
| Neo Inferno 262 Pleonectic |
| Nephilim's Noose Blood Chants of Impiety |
| Nero di Marte Derivae |
| Nero di Marte Immoto |
| Nesseria Cette érosion de nous-mêmes |
| Netherbird Into The Vast Uncharted |
| Netherbird Arete |
| Netherlands Kali Corvette |
| Netherlands Severance |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires |
| Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome Aberration |
| Nexion (IS) Seven Oracles |
| Nexul Paradigm of Chaos |
| Nibiru (ITA) Padmalotus |
| Nibiru (ITA) Qaal Babalon |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away |
| Nick Johnston Child of Bliss |
| Night High Tides - Distant Skies |
| Night Crowned Impius Viam |
| Night Crowned Rebirth of the Old |
| Night Crowned Tales |
| Night Demon Outsider |
| Night Shall Drape Us Lunatic Choir |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I |
| Nightfall At Night We Prey |
| Nightfell The Living Ever Mourn |
| Nightfell A Sanity Deranged |
| Nightmarer Deformity Adrift |
| Nightrage Abyss Rising |
| Nightside (FIN) Death from the North |
| Nightwish HVMAN. :||: NATVRE. |
| Nightwish Yesterwynde |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch |
| Nine Treasures Awakening from Dukkha |
| Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods |
| Ninth Realm A Fate Unbroken |
| Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon |
| No Omega Shame |
| No Warning Torture Culture |
| Noctambulist The Barren Form |
| Noctem Haeresis |
| Noctem Credo Certe Ne Cras |
| Nocturnus AD Unicursal |
| Noekk Waltzing in Obscurity |
| Noeta Elm |
| Non Est Deus Legacy |
| NONE Inevitable |
| Nordicwinter Beneath the Fleeting Light |
| Nordicwinter This Mournful Dawn |
| Nordjevel Necrogenesis |
| Nordjevel Gnavhòl |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Norna Norna |
| Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale |
| Nothgard Malady X |
| Nothing Is Real The End Is Near |
| Novae Militiae Topheth |
| Novembers Doom Hamartia |
| Nubivagant Roaring Eye |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity |
| Nug Alter Ego |
| Null (USA) Lore of a Sleeping Forest |
| Nullingroots Into the Grey |
| Nunslaughter Angelic Dread |
| Nunslaughter Red Is The Color Of Ripping Death |
| Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever |
| NYOS Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever |
| Nyrst Orsök |
| Nyss Dépayser |
| O Zorn! Vermillion Haze |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Oathbreaker Rheia |
| Obelyskkh The Providence |
| Oberst Toil |
| Obscurity Streitmacht |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis |
| Obsidian Sea Strangers |
| Obsidian Sea Pathos |
| Obsidious Iconic |
| Obtest Auka Seniems Dievams |
| Occult Burial Burning Eerie Lore |
| Ocean Chief Den Tredje Dagen |
| Ocean Districts Phantom Islands |
| Ocean Grove The Rhapsody Tapes |
| Ocean Of Grief Pale Existence |
| Oceano Incisions |
| OCEANS (DEU) The Sun and the Cold |
| October Falls A Fall of an Epoch |
| October Tide In Splendor Below |
| October Tide The Cancer Pledge |
| Odd Dimension The Blue Dawn |
| Oddarrang Oddarrang |
| Odium Humani Generis Zarzewie |
| Odraza Rzeczom |
| Oerheks Landschappsanachronismen |
| Ofermod Pentagrammaton |
| Offernat Where Nothing Grows |
| Officium Triste Hortus Venenum |
| Ofnus Time Held Me Grey And Dying |
| Oh Hiroshima Myriad |
| OHHMS The Fool |
| OHHMS Close |
| ojeRum Music for a Lonely Moon |
| Okkultokrati La Ilden Lyse |
| Oksät Defiaent |
| Ol Drake Old Rake |
| Old Forest Back into the Old Forest |
| Old Growth (DE) Mossweaver |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II |
| Old Wounds The Suffering Spirit |
| Olde Throne In the Land of Ghosts |
| Omega Infinity The Anticurrent |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin |
| Omnivortex Circulate |
| On Thorns I Lay On Thorns I Lay |
| Once Human Scar Weaver |
| Ondt Blod Finnmark |
| One with the Riverbed Succumb |
| Onirism The Well of Stars |
| Onsegen Ensemble Realms |
| Onslaught VI |
| Onslaught Generation Antichrist |
| Oozing Wound Whatever Forever |
| Oozing Wound High Anxiety |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Ophis The Dismal Circle |
| Ophis Spew Forth Odium |
| Opium Warlords Taste My Sword of Understanding |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä |
| Orbit Culture Nija |
| Ordalie Indifferent Universe |
| Order The Gospel |
| Ordinance (FIN) In Purge There Is No Remission |
| Oreida The Eternal |
| Organectomy Existential Disconnect |
| Orgg Dimonios |
| Orgone (FRA) Mos/Fet |
| Origin Omnipresent |
| Origin Unparalleled Universe |
| Oriska Oriska |
| Orkan Element |
| Orne The Tree Of Life |
| Oros Kau Thanatos |
| Orphalis As The Ashes Settle |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs |
| Orphans of Dusk Spleen |
| Ortega Sacred States |
| Orthodox (ESP) Axis |
| Oryx Primordial Sky |
| Osi and the Jupiter Stave |
| Ossaert Offerdier |
| Ottone Pesante DoomooD |
| OU II: Frailty |
| Oubliette (USA-TN) The Passage |
| Our Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left Hopeless |
| Out of the Mouth of Graves Shrines to Dagon |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay |
| Outer Heaven Infinite Psychic Depths |
| Outergods A Kingdom Built Upon The Wreckage of Heaven |
| Outlander (UK) Acts of Harm |
| Overkill Scorched |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke |
| Oxxo Xoox Ÿ |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree |
| Ozric Tentacles Lotus Unfolding |
| Paganizer Beyond The Macabre |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Pallbearer Forgotten Days |
| Pallbearer Mind Burns Alive |
| Panda Riot Extra Cosmic |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon/Aerial Ruin Panopticon / Aerial Ruin |
| Panopticon/Nechochwen Panopticon / Nechochwen |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter II |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III |
| Papangu Holoceno |
| Paranorm Empyrean |
| Parfaxitas Weaver of the Black Moon |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Party Cannon Volumes of Vomit |
| Patricia Wolf See-Through |
| Patristic Apologetica |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt |
| Peklo Supostat |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories |
| Penelope Trappes Heavenly Spheres |
| Pentagram (CL) Eternal Life of Madness |
| Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying |
| Perdition Winds Burning Spiritual Crypts |
| Perennial Isolation Portraits |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Perpetrator Altered Beast |
| Perpetual Night Aconitum |
| Perturbator New Model |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments |
| Perversor Umbravorous |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor |
| Pestifer Defeat of the Nemesis |
| Pestilence Exitivm |
| Pestilength Basom Gryphos |
| Pestilent Hex The Ashen Abhorrence |
| Petyr Smolyk |
| Phantom Winter Into Dark Science |
| Pharmakon Devour |
| Phenocryst Cremation Pyre |
| Phew Phew Names |
| Phi-Psonics Octava |
| Phlebotomized Deformation of Humanity |
| Phobia Generation Coward |
| Phobonoid La Caduta Di Phobos |
| Phobophilic Undimensioned Identities |
| Phoxjaw Royal Swan |
| Phreneticum Der Stille Zerfall |
| Pia Fraus Evening Colours |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage |
| Pijn Loss |
| Pil and Bue Special Agents |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc |
| Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning |
| Pitbulls in the Nursery Equanimity |
| Pixie Ninja Hypnagogia |
| Plague Rider Intensities |
| Plague Years Circle of Darkness |
| Planet Of Zeus Loyal to the Pack |
| Planning for Burial Below the House |
| Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit |
| Ploughshare Second Wound |
| Pneuma Hagion From Beyond |
| PoiL Ueda PoiL Ueda |
| PoiL Ueda Yoshitsune |
| Poison Idea Confuse & Conquer |
| Poison Ruin Harvest |
| Poison Ruin Confrere |
| Polar Shadowed by Vultures |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Polica Madness |
| Polinski Telex from MIDI City |
| Polyphia Renaissance |
| Pomegranate Tiger Boundless |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Portal ION |
| Portishead Third |
| Portrait (SWE) Burn the World |
| Portrait (SWE) At One with None |
| Portrait (SWE) The Host |
| Portrayal of Guilt Christfucker |
| Poseidon (UK) Prologue |
| Possession (BE) Exorkizein |
| Prehistoric War Cult Barbaric Metal |
| Pressure Points The Island |
| Prevalent Resistance Eternal Return |
| Primitive Man Caustic |
| Primitive Man Immersion |
| Primitive Man / Hell (USA) Split |
| Primitive Warfare Extinction Protocol |
| Primitive Weapons The Future of Death |
| Primordial Exile Amongst The Ruins |
| Primordial How It Ends |
| Primordial Serpent Enlightenment Through Impurity |
| Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God |
| Profanatica Crux Simplex |
| Profane Order One Nightmare unto Another |
| Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna |
| Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval |
| Proscription Conduit |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Psychic Lemon The Unheimlich Kingdom |
| Psychic Temple A Universe Regards Itself |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality |
| Psychonaut 4 ...Of Mourning |
| Psycroptic Psycroptic |
| Psycroptic The Watcher of All |
| Psygnosis Mercury |
| Pure Adult II |
| Pure Reason Revolution Eupnea |
| Purgatory (USA-NE) Cold Side Of Reality |
| Purson Rocking Horse |
| Putrid Offal Sicknesses Obsessions |
| Pyrolatrous Inveterate |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival |
| Qaalm Grave Impressions Of An Unbroken Arc |
| Quicksand Interiors |
| Quicksand Distant Populations |
| Quiet Man The Starving Lesson |
| Qwalen Syvä Hiljaisuus |
| R.I.P. In The Wind |
| Radio Moscow Magical Dirt |
| Radio Moscow New Beginnings |
| Radio Supernova Paratiisi |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri Agitas Al Sol |
| Ragana Desolation's Flower |
| Raised Fist From the North |
| A very solid album with some outstanding ambitious tracks and some which are by comparison much less effective. That said my main problem with the album is how the vocals half the time feel too forceful as opposed to just seeming natural...but then I guess I should have expected that walking into a hardcore album. Nonetheless, the highlights are practically obvious for me-"In Circles" and "Depression" particularly impressed me. |
| RAM The Throne Within |
| Ramming Speed No Epitaphs |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Ranger Speed & Violence |
| Rapture (GR) Paroxysm of Hatred |
| Rapture Star Dark Cosmic Web |
| Rat King (USA-WA) Psychotic Reality |
| Raven ExtermiNation |
| Raven Metal City |
| Raven Throne I Miortvym Snicca Zolak |
| Raven Throne Viartańnie (Chroniki Źmiainaj Ciemry) |
| Ravencult Morbid Blood |
| Ravencult Force Of Profanation |
| Ravens Creed Ravens Krieg |
| Raventale Planetarium II |
| Ravenwiek Barren Grounds |
| Red Mountains Slow Wander |
| Red Rot Borders Of Mania |
| Red Usurper Abandon |
| Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day |
| Redwood Hill Ender |
| Reflections Exi(s)t |
| A lot of promise on show here, especially in regards to the way in which melody and brutal technical musicianship is intertwined. "Lost Pages" has a wonderful ambient section and the solos throughout "Stories through the storms" and "My Cancer" are well executed. I think the main problem here is the band's lack of focus sometimes as structures becomes too clogged up with unnecessary additional dynamics or electronic interludes. |
| Regal Worm Worm! |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension |
| Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am |
| Remina Strata |
| Remote Viewing Modern Addictions |
| Rendezvous Point Universal Chaos |
| Replacire The Center That Cannot Hold |
| Replicant Malignant Reality |
| Resin Tomb Cerebral Purgatory |
| Return from the Grave Gates of Nowhere |
| Revenant Marquis All the Pleasures of Heaven |
| Revenge (CAN) Strike.Smother.Dehumanize |
| Revocation The Outer Ones |
| Revulsion Enough To Bleed |
| REZN Solace |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain |
| Ricinn Nereid |
| Rile Pessimist |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch |
| Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice |
| Riot V Armor Of Light |
| Ripper (CL) Raising the Corpse |
| Rise of Caligula Parading From Heaven's Descent |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Rites of Thy Degringolade The Blade Philosophical |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) |
| Ritual Clearing Penitence |
| River Black River Black |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Riverwood (EG) Shadows And Flames |
| RLYR RLYR |
| Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs |
| Robocobra Quartet Living Isn't Easy |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death |
| Roisin Murphy Hairless Toys |
| Rongeur An Asphyxiating Embrace |
| Rorcal Creon |
| Rorcal Silence |
| Rorcal and Earthflesh Witch Coven |
| Rosa Faenskap Jeg Blir Til Deg |
| Rosalie Cunningham To Shoot another Day |
| Roseneath Shine |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete |
| Rosetta Flies to Flame |
| Rosetta Sower of Wind |
| ROSK Miasma |
| Rostro Del Sol Blue Storm |
| Rotten Sound Abuse to Suffer |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics |
| Rotting Christ Pro Xristou |
| Rotting Out The Wrong Way |
| Rotting Out Ronin |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First |
| RPWL Crime Scene |
| Ruadh Eternal |
| Ruadh 1296 |
| Ruby The Hatchet Planetary Space Child |
| Rude Soul Recall |
| Ruin Lust Dissimulant |
| Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep |
| Runemagick Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind |
| Runespell Shores of Náströnd |
| Russ Lossing Folks |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Russian Circles Guidance |
| Russian Circles Gnosis |
| Rymden Valleys and Mountains |
| Ryte Ryte |
| Sabbat The Dwelling |
| Sabbath Assembly A Letter Of Red |
| Sabhankra Death to Traitors |
| Sacred Reich Awakening |
| Sacred Son Sacred Son |
| Sacred Son The Foul Deth Of Engelond |
| Sacri Monti Retrieval |
| Sacrilegia Sold Under Sin |
| Sadus The Shadow Inside |
| Saigon Blue Rain Oko |
| Saille V |
| Salacious Gods Oalevluuk |
| Samoans Rescue |
| Samsara Blues Experiment One With The Universe |
| San Leo Aves Raras |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction |
| Sanctuarium Melted And Decomposed |
| Sanguine Glacialis Maladaptive Daydreaming |
| Sanhedrin (USA-NY) Lights On |
| Sannhet So Numb |
| Saor Origins |
| Sarabante Poisonous Legacy |
| Sarathy Korwar KALAK |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene |
| Sarcofago I.N.R.I. |
| Sarcoptes Plague Hymns |
| Sarcoptes Prayers to Oblivion |
| Sarke Viige Urh |
| Sarke Gastwerso |
| Sarvekas Woven Dark Paths |
| Sasquatch Maneuvers |
| Satan Earth Infernal |
| Satan's Satyrs The Lucky Ones |
| Saturnus The Storm Within |
| Satyr Totem |
| Saule Saule |
| Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark |
| Saviours Palace of Vision |
| Saxon Battering Ram |
| Scale the Summit V |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph |
| Scar the Martyr Revolver |
| Scarab Martyrs Of The Storm |
| Scarcity Aveilut |
| Scarcity The Promise of Rain |
| Scarlxrd IMMXRTALISATIXN |
| Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite |
| Schammasch Triangle |
| Schammasch Hearts of No Light |
| Schammasch The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean |
| Schizoid Lloyd The Last Note In God's Magnum Opus |
| Schizophrenia (BE) Recollections of the Insane |
| Scitalis Doomed Before Time |
| Scott Stapp The Space Between The Shadows |
| Scour Grey |
| Scour Red |
| Scumpulse Rotten |
| Scythian Hubris in Excelsis |
| Sea Mosquito Igitur |
| Sea of Shit Self Titled |
| Seabreather Impermanence in Light |
| Sear Bliss Letters From The Edge |
| Borknagar with Trombones is the best description I can come up with. That aside, "Abandoned Peaks" is one of the most unique black metal songs I've heard in 2018. Rest of the album plods a little but is generally soothing and consistent in its delivery. |
| Sear Bliss Heavenly Down |
| Second To Sun Voices of Obscurantism |
| Second To Sun Nocturnal Philosophy |
| Secret Shame Autonomy |
| Sect (USA) No Cure For Death |
| Sedimentum Derrière les Portes d'une Arcane Transcendante |
| See You Next Tuesday Distractions |
| Seeker Loss |
| Seer Vol. 6 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy Coup de Grâce |
| Selbst Relatos de Angustia |
| Self Hypnosis Contagion of Despair |
| Senyawa Alkisah |
| Sepiroth Condemned to Suffer |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Sepulchral Curse Abhorrent Dimensions |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo |
| Seraphic Entombment Sickness Particles Gleam |
| Seremonia Neonlusifer |
| Sergeant Thunderhoof This Sceptred Veil |
| Sermon Of Golden Verse |
| Serotonin Syndrome Seed of Mankind |
| Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation |
| Serpent Omega II |
| Serpent Venom Of Things Seen & Unseen |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion |
| Set and Setting Tabula Rasa |
| Seven Sisters Of Sleep Ezekiel's Hags |
| Severoth By the Way of Light |
| Shaam Larein Sculpture |
| Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire |
| I really like the maniacal tone running throughout this album, but pretty much every song ends up being a little inconsistent, too much for me to rate it any higher. Songs like "The Hungry Omega", "Lord of Putrefaction" and "Ascension of the Blood Dragon" are great for a couple of minutes and then they seem to plod on towards the end. Then songs like "Fires of Molok" and "Faceless Queen of Bloodstained Dreams" are the flipside of this-they start out a little uninteresting, then finish on a high because of the former's beautiful outro or the latter's menacing mid-paced battery. The band do get it perfect on "Beast of Lawlessness", which for me is the stand-out highlight of the record. |
| Shade Empire Poetry Of The Ill-Minded |
| Shade Empire Sunholy |
| Shadowflag In Asylum Requiem |
| Shaidar Logoth Chapter III: The Void God |
| Sharptooth Transitional Forms |
| Shatter Brain Pitchfork Justice |
| Shattered Hope Vespers |
| She Said Destroy Succession |
| Shellac To All Trains |
| Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Shit and Shine New Confusion |
| Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur |
| Shrezzers SEX and SAX |
| Shroud of Bereavement A Beautiful Winter |
| Shy, low Babylonica |
| Sibiir Sibiir |
| Sibiir Ropes |
| Sick Feeling Suburban Myth |
| Siderean Spilling the Astral Chalice |
| Siege of Power This Is Tomorrow |
| Sielunvihollinen Helvetinkone |
| SIG:AR:TYR Citadel of Stars |
| Sigh Graveward |
| Sigh Shiki |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog |
| Sightless Pit Lockstep Bloodwar |
| Sigillum S Coalescence of Time: Other Conjectures on Future |
| Sign Language (USA-OH) Madison and Floral |
| Sign Of Evil Psychodelic Horror |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Silent Drive Fairhaven |
| Silent Skies Nectar |
| Silhouette (FRA) Les Retranchements |
| Silhouette (FRA) Les Dires de l'Âme |
| Silurian (MN) End of Ordovocia |
| Silversun Pickups Physical Thrills |
| Sinister Syncretism |
| Sinister Downfall The Last Witness |
| Sinisthra The Broad And Beaten Way |
| Sinmara Within the Weaves of Infinity |
| Sister Stand Up, Forward, March! |
| Sisyphean Colours of Faith |
| Skalmold Med Vaettum |
| This is a very powerful record as far as instrumentation is concerned, but the half-hearted vocals slightly ruin the experience for me. Nonetheless, most songs here feature a very sound transition between aggressive, more solid metal sounds to quieter albeit just as intense passages. Highlights for me would be "Ao Vori" and "Meo Drekum". |
| Skalmold Sorgir |
| Skam Sounds of a Disease |
| Skaphe and Wormlust Kosmískur Hryllingur |
| Skaur Skaur |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality |
| Skeletal Remains The Entombment of Chaos |
| Skelethal Within Corrosive Continuums |
| Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom |
| Skepticism Companion |
| Skindred Union Black |
| Skindred Babylon |
| Skindred Roots Rock Riot |
| Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain |
| Skinless Savagery |
| Skinshape Nostalgia |
| Skull Fist Chasing the Dream |
| Band has obviously been listening to a lot of 80s metal for inspiration, and there's a lot of proof in each of this album's nine songs. Nothing wrong with that though because instrumentation is very solid and catchy all the way through. The vocalist for me brings the quality down a notch or two, but I think you can get past that by considering how well done the solos are in songs such as the title track and "Sign of the warrior". |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| SlavEATgod Skyline Fission |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West |
| Slimelord Chytridiomycosis Relinquished |
| Slog Divination |
| Slough Feg New Organon |
| Slow Crush Aurora |
| Slow Crush Hush |
| Slowdive Everything is Alive |
| Slugcrust Slugcrust |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Smoulder Violent Creed of Vengeance |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| Sodomisery Mazzaroth |
| Soen Tellurian |
| Soen Lotus |
| Softcult Heaven |
| Sofy Major Waste |
| SOHN Tremors |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Sojourner Empires of Ash |
| Solefald World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Solstice (UK) White Horse Hill |
| SOM The Shape of Everything |
| Somniate We Have Proved Death |
| Somnuri Nefarious Wave |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony |
| Soothsayer (IRE) Echoes Of The Earth |
| Sorcerer Lamenting Of The Innocent |
| Soreption Monument of the End |
| Sorgelig Φθορά |
| Sorry... Innocence.Love.Sadness |
| Sortilegia Sulphurous Temple |
| Sorxe Matter & Void |
| Soul Blind Feel It All Around |
| Soul Devourment / Anatomia Tenebrous Ingestion |
| Soul Dissolution Stardust |
| Soul Dissolution SORA |
| Soulfly Totem |
| Sound of Ceres Emerald Sea |
| Spaceships Ruins |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος |
| Spectral Lore 11 Days |
| Spectral Voice Sparagmos |
| Spectral Wound Songs of Blood and Mire |
| Speedtrap Straight Shooter |
| Speglas Time, Futility & Death |
| Spelljammer Abyssal Trip |
| Spider God Ett främmande språk |
| Spider God Fly In The Trap |
| Spire Temple of Khronos |
| Spirit Adrift Chained To Oblivion |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness |
| Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity |
| Spirit Adrift Ghost At The Gallows |
| Spirit Possession Spirit Possession |
| Spirit Possession Of the Sign ... |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Spiritus Mortis The Year Is One |
| Spiter Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell |
| Split Cranium I'm The Devil and I'm OK |
| Spook the Horses Empty Body |
| Sporae Autem Yuggoth ...However It Still Moves |
| Spotlights Alchemy for the Dead |
| Spotlights Love and Decay |
| Squint Wash Away |
| Srd Vragvmesiton |
| SRSQ Ever Crashing |
| STABSCOTCH Prison Jar |
| Stalker Black Majik Terror |
| Static-X Machine |
| Static-X Cannibal |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Static-X Start A War |
| Statues Together We're Alone |
| Statues No Grave, No Burial |
| Staurophagia Spaceforming |
| Stealing Sheep Wow Machine |
| Steeleye Span Rocket Cottage |
| Steely Dan Katy Lied |
| Stellar Circuits Sight To Sound |
| Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale |
| Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough |
| Stick to Your Guns True View |
| Stille Volk Milharis |
| Stiu Nu Stiu New Sun |
| Stomach Parasite |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd |
| Stonefield Bent |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Why are people even rating this album yet? To my knowledge there hasn't been a leak for this album...besides, i've pre-ordered it. It deserves that at least. |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Stormruler Sacred Rites & Black Magick |
| Stortregn Impermanence |
| Stortregn Finitude |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Stratovarius Eternal |
| Stream Of Passion A War of Our Own |
| Stress Angel Punished by Nemesis |
| Strychnos A Mother's Curse |
| Strychnos Armageddon Patronage |
| Stuck Freak Frequency |
| Stuporous Asylum's Lament |
| Submotile One Final Summit Before the Fall |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages |
| Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain |
| Subterranean Disposition Individuation |
| Succumb XXI |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Fyra |
| Sugar Horse The Live Long After |
| Sugar Horse Waterloo Teeth |
| Sugar Horse The Grand Scheme of Things |
| Suhnopfer Nous sommes d'hier |
| Suicidal Angels Years of Aggression |
| Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion |
| Suicidal Tendencies World Gone Mad |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere |
| Sulphur Aeon Seven Crowns and Seven Seals |
| SUMAC Love In Shadow |
| Sumerlands Dreamkiller |
| Summon Helios |
| Summon (PT) Parazv Il Zilittv |
| Sun of Nothing Maze |
| Sunburst Manifesto |
| Sunchild Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream |
| Sundrowned Become Ethereal |
| Sunlight's Bane The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts |
| Sunrot The Unfailing Rope |
| Suns of the Tundra The Only Equation |
| Sunwatchers Music Is Victory Over Time |
| Suotana Ounas I |
| Sur Austru Meteahna Timpurilor |
| Sur Austru Obârşie |
| Surut Surut |
| Surya (UK) Solastalgia |
| Suspiral Chasm |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes |
| Svart Crown Les Terres Brûlées |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral |
| Svartsyn Requiem |
| Svdestada Candela |
| Svrm Занепад |
| Swallow the Sun Songs From The North I, II & III |
| Swallow the Sun Shining |
| Swans Leaving Meaning |
| Swans The Beggar |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Sylvaine Eg Er Framand |
| Sylvatica Cadaver Synod |
| Sympathy Pain Swan Dive |
| Taake Stridens hus |
| Taake Kong Vinter |
| Taake Et hav av avstand |
| Tad Morose Revenant |
| Pretty good album, even if every song pretty much follows the same formula. It's essentially an album full of punchy powerful songs and soaring vocals, just like consistent power metal should be. Not sure why it's labelled here as "progressive" power metal (I myself can't see where the progressive part comes in), but it'd definitely consistent as a power metal album. A few weak tracks on here such as 'Follow', 'Ares' and 'Absence of light' disappointed me a little, but that's probably only because they're overshadowed by stronger songs such as excellent opener 'beneath a veil of crying souls' and 'Within a dream'. |
| Tad Morose St. Demonius |
| Tad Morose March of the Obsequious |
| Take Over And Destroy Take Over and Destroy |
| Tallies Patina |
| Talons We All Know |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Oscillating Forest |
| Tanukichan Gizmo |
| Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness |
| Tar Pit Tomb Of Doom |
| Tar Pond Petrol |
| Tardigrada Emotionale Ödnis |
| Tardigrade Inferno Arrival of a Train |
| Tarja Turunen In The Raw |
| Tarot To Live Forever |
| Tau Cross Tau Cross |
| Tau Cross A Pillar Of Fire |
| Taubra Therizo |
| Taur-Im-Duinath Verso Casa |
| Tausendstern Der Leuchtturm |
| Teeth Of The Sea Hive |
| Teethgrinder Dystopia |
| Telenova Stained Glass Love |
| Telepathy Burn Embrace |
| Telesterion Epopteia |
| Teloch Thus Darkness Spake |
| Telos Delude |
| Tempel (NO) Tempel |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) The Moon Lit Our Path |
| Temple Of Angels Endless Pursuit |
| Temple of Baal Mysterium |
| Temple of Dread Hades Unleashed |
| Temple of Void The World That Was |
| Temple of Void Lords Of Death |
| Temple of Void Summoning the Slayer |
| Tentacult Lacerating Pattern |
| Teramaze I Wonder |
| Teramaze Sorella Minore |
| Teramaze Flight of The Wounded |
| Teramaze Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace |
| Terminalist The Crisis as Condition |
| Terra Builder Solar Temple |
| Terrestrial Hospice Caviary to the General |
| Terror Cell Caustic Light |
| Terror Cell All Quiet |
| Terry Green Provisional Living |
| Tersivel To the Orphic Void |
| Terzij de Horde Self |
| Terzij de Horde In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy |
| Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing |
| TesseracT One |
| Tethra Empire of the Void |
| Tetragrammacide Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix |
| Tetragrammacide Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From the Arachneophidian Qur'an |
| Thanatomass Hades |
| Thanatos Violent Death Rituals |
| Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations |
| Thaw Grains |
| Thaw Fading Backwards |
| This music makes me feel like I'm walking in ultra slow motion, and yet it compels me to multiple listens. Bizarre but somewhat alluring record. |
| The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed |
| The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined |
| The Agonist Days Before The World Wept |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor |
| Consistently powerful and punchy in its delivery, with sometimes added atmosphere to make songs such as "Hand of the Divine" all the more visceral. It's almost like the Gothenburg scene of the early 00s but with a modernized thrust up the proverbial hole. |
| The Algorithm Compiler Optimization Techniques |
| The Amenta Revelator |
| The Answer Lies in the Black Void Thou Shalt |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Arrival Note Vol. 2 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir |
| The Atomic Bitchwax Gravitron |
| The Atomic Bitchwax Force Field |
| The Bad Plus The Bad Plus (2022) |
| The Banner Greying |
| The Bardic Depths What We Really Like in Stories |
| The Beremy Jets Devastation |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Servitude |
| The Black Mysteries ...And the Opening of the Shadowy Sepulchre... |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds |
| The Bronx The Bronx (V) |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys |
| The Casualties Chaos Sound |
| The Church The Hypnogogue |
| The Circle Of Awakening |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant |
| The Cranberries Roses |
| The Crotals Horde |
| The Crown Cobra Speed Venom |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer |
| The Cult Beyond Good And Evil |
| The Dali Thundering Concept Savages |
| The Darkness Last of Our Kind |
| The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master |
| Decent, traditional black metal with so-so vocals. The musicianship however is spot on for this sound, and the twisted nature of "Dynamic Underworld" and "A Foot in each Hell" works very well. |
| The Deathtrip Demon Solar Totem |
| The Defiled Daggers |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Distillers Coral Fang |
| The Distillers The Distillers |
| The Divine Comedy Liberation |
| The Doors Waiting For The Sun |
| The Doors L.A. Woman |
| The Drip The Haunting Fear of Inevitability |
| The Drowned God I'll Always Be The Same |
| The End (NOR) Why Do You Mourn? |
| The Enid Touch Me |
| The Erkonauts I Did Something Bad |
| The Erkonauts I Shall Forgive |
| The Erkonauts I Want It To End |
| The Ever Living Artificial Devices |
| The Exploited Punks Not Dead |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow |
| The Exploited The Massacre |
| The Exploited Fuck the System |
| The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost |
| The Fall of Troy OK |
| The Fierce and the Dead News from the Invisible World |
| The Five Hundred Bleed Red |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Skadi |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide |
| The Foreshadowing Forsaken Songs |
| The Foreshadowing New Wave Order |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion |
| The Gorge Mechanical Fiction |
| The Grasshopper Lies Heavy A Cult That Worships A God Of Death |
| The Great Cold The Great Cold |
| The Haunted Exit Wounds |
| The Haunted One Kill Wonder |
| The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist |
| The Hirsch Effekt Kollaps |
| The Hirsch Effekt Solitaer |
| The Hirsch Effekt Urian |
| The Holy Family Go Zero |
| The Hyena Kill A Disconnect |
| The Infernal Sea The Great Mortality |
| The Infernal Sea Negotium Crucis |
| The Jesus Lizard Rack |
| The Kindred Weight |
| The King Is Blind We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer |
| The Lion's Daughter Existence Is Horror |
| The Lion's Daughter Future Cult |
| I'm getting strong Septicflesh vibes (Revolution DNA and Sumerian Daemons era mainly), but this latest album has more of an abrasive edge, particularly regarding the metal parts. Another intriguing album from Season of Mist. |
| The Lion's Daughter Skin Show |
| The Lion's Daughter Bath House |
| The Magus Βυσσοδομώντας |
| The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight |
| The Mist From the Mountains Portal: The Gathering of Storms |
| The Monolith Deathcult Versus I |
| The Mosaic Window Plight of Acceptance |
| The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh |
| The Negative Bias Narcissus Rising |
| The Negative Bias The Seven Seals of Saligia |
| The New Death Cult The New Death Cult |
| An interesting mix of modern day Wildhearts and early (debut particularly) Foo Fighters, with extra added melody in almost every aspect of the sound. Nice but the album feels quite short. |
| The Obsessed Lunar Womb |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension |
| The Omnific Escapades |
| The Osiris Club The Wine-Dark Sea |
| The Otolith Folium Limina |
| I'm getting the same vibes with this album that I did with the latest releases from Volur and Eight Bells. And that's a good thing. |
| The Pneumatic Transit Forbidden Trinkets |
| The Ritual Aura Heresiarch |
| The Sabbathian Latum Alterum |
| The Silver (US) Ward of Roses |
| The Skull For Those Which Are Asleep |
| The Skull The Endless Road Turns Dark |
| The Slow Death Siege |
| The Socks The Socks |
| The Spirit Of Clarity and Galactic Structures |
| The St Pierre Snake Invasion CAPRICE ENCHANTÉ |
| The Sun's Journey Through The Night Worldless |
| The Ugly Thanatology |
| The Veldt Entropy is the Mainline to God |
| The Vintage Caravan Voyage |
| The Well Death and Consolation |
| The White Swan Nocturnal Transmission |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed |
| The Wise Man's Fear Atlas Ruinica |
| Thecodontion Supercontinent |
| Bass?rBass indeed.rDrums too. rAnd one interesting concept to tie the songwriting together. |
| Them Moose Rush Dancing Maze |
| Theophonos Ashes in the Huron River |
| Theories Vessel |
| Theosophy Bleeding Wounds of the First and the Last |
| Theotoxin Fragment: Totenruhe |
| Therapy? Hard Cold Fire |
| There's A Light A Long Lost Silence |
| Therion Leviathan II |
| They Grieve To Which I Bore Witness |
| Third Storm The Grand Manifestation |
| This Gift Is A Curse A Throne of Ash |
| This White Mountain Icons of the Melancholy |
| Thorn Evergloom |
| Thornhill Heroine |
| Thou Umbilical |
| thoughtcrimes Altered Pasts |
| Threat Signal Disconnect |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| Threshold For The Journey |
| Threshold Dividing Lines |
| Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière |
| Throane Plus une Main à Mordre |
| Throat We Must Leave You |
| Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God |
| Thron Dust |
| Thronum Vrondor Ichor (The Rebellion) |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus |
| Thulcandra A Dying Wish |
| Thulcandra Hail The Abyss |
| Thundering Hooves Radiance |
| Thurnin Útiseta |
| Thy Antichrist Wrath of the Beast |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet |
| Thy Grief The Frozen Tomb Of Mankind |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Thyrfing Vanagandr |
| Tideless Eye of Water |
| Tides From Nebula Instant Rewards |
| Tides of Sulfur Apathy Chasm |
| Time Lurker/Cepheide Lucide |
| Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile |
| Timeworn Luminescent Wake |
| Timor Et Tremor Realm of Ashes |
| Tiny Blue Ghost Between the Botanicals |
| Titan to Tachyons Cactides |
| Tithe (USA) Inverse Rapture |
| To The Wind The Brighter View |
| Toadeater Codex |
| Toadeater Bit to ewigen daogen |
| Toadliquor Back In The Hole |
| Toby Driver They Are the Shield |
| Tod Huetet Uebel N.A.D.A. |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother |
| TodoMal A Greater Good |
| toe NOW I SEE THE LIGHT |
| Toehider I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories |
| Together to the Stars The Fragile Silence |
| Tomahawk Tonic Immobility |
| Tombs The Grand Annihilation |
| Tombs Monarchy of Shadows |
| Tombs Under Sullen Skies |
| Tombstoned II |
| Tomorrow's Rain Hollow |
| Tongues Formløse Stjerner |
| Tony Martin Thorns |
| Torch Runner Committed To The Ground |
| Torche Restarter |
| Torche Admission |
| Torpor (UK) ABSCISSION |
| Totenmesse Fiktionlust |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By |
| Touche Amore Spiral in a Straight Line |
| Toughness The Prophetic Dawn |
| Toundra IV |
| Very lush atmosphere, a lot of things going on here-often at the same time. I would prefer it if there were vocals on some of the tracks-particularly the first two and "Belenos"-but I guess that's just asking too much from a band who obviously focus on delivering some of the most interesting post-metal influenced they can conjure. It's just that there were moments throughout the album where I felt a good usage of vocal delivery could elevate the effectiveness of the instrumentation, so that a greater first impression would ensue. Nonetheless, there's some excellent songwriting here, and by far my favourite song of the whole album is "Viesca". |
| Toundra Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari |
| Toundra Hex |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness |
| "Simply Thrashtastic! Vol.1".rBut yeah, seriously, this is nice, solid, blackened thrash, and nothing else. |
| Toxik Breaking Class |
| Traffic Sound Traffic Sound |
| Trail Of Tears Winds Of Disdain |
| Transatlantic The Whirlwind |
| Transilvania Of Sleep And Death |
| Transit Method The Madness |
| Trappist Ancient Brewing Tactics |
| GIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERrGIMME A BEERretc, etc. |
| Trees of Eternity Hour Of The Nightingale |
| Tremonti Cauterize |
| Trepas Les Ombres Malades |
| Trepidation Festering Unfaltered Hatred |
| Tribe Of Pazuzu Blasphemous Prophecies |
| Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance |
| Trident (SWE) North |
| Triggerfinger Colossus |
| Triumvir Foul Spiritual Bloodshed |
| Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination |
| Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Trolldom Av Gudars Ätt... |
| Trolldom I Nattens Sken |
| Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales |
| Truckfighters Universe |
| Tryblith Draconis Maleficium |
| Tsjuder Antiliv |
| Tsjuder Helvegr |
| Tulkas The Beginning of the End |
| Turbid North Eyes Alive |
| Turnover Myself in the Way |
| Turnstile Time and Space |
| Tuscoma Gu-cci |
| Twin Drugs In Now Less Than Ever |
| Tyr Battle Ballads |
| Tyranny Aeons in Tectonic Interment |
| Tzompantli Tlazcaltiliztli |
| Tzompantli Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun |
| Uada Crepuscule Natura |
| Ueldes Foreverer |
| UFO UFO 1 |
| UFO The Visitor |
| UFO Walk On Water |
| Ufomammut 8 |
| Ufomammut Hidden |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ulfud Of Existential Distortion |
| Ulrika Spacek Compact Trauma |
| Ulsect Ulsect |
| Ultar Kadath |
| Ultar Pantheon MMXIX |
| Ultar At the Gates of Dusk |
| Ulthar Providence |
| Ultramarine Send and Return |
| Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil |
| Ulvik Cascades |
| Ulvik Last Rites | Dire Omens |
| Ume Monuments |
| Un The Tomb of All Things |
| Un Sentiment |
| Un and Coltsblood Coltsblood / Un |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Häxan Sabaoth |
| Undeath More Insane |
| Unearthly Trance Stalking The Ghost |
| Unendlich Misanthrope Divine |
| Uneven Structure La Partition |
| Uneven Structure Paragon |
| Unfelled Pall of Endless Perdition |
| Uniform Shame |
| Uniform and The Body Mental Wounds Not Healing |
| Uniform and The Body Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back |
| Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void |
| Unpure Prophecies Ablaze |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Unsane Sterilize |
| Untamed Land Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms |
| Unto Others Mana |
| Unto Others Strength |
| upcdownc Duel |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now |
| Uprising III |
| Ur Draugr With Hunger Undying |
| Urarv Argentum |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| Uriah Heep Chaos & Colour |
| Urne A Feast On Sorrow |
| Ushangvagush Pestmo'qon |
| Usurper Lords Of The Permafrost |
| Usurpress The Regal Tribe |
| Uzlaga The Might of Waves |
| Vacivus Temple Of The Abyss |
| Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria |
| Vaegtlos Aftryk |
| Vaeok Vaeok |
| Vahrzaw In The Shallows Of A Starlit Lake |
| Vainaja Verenvalaja |
| VAK (SWE) The Islands |
| Valac Under the Ophidians Curse |
| Vale (USA-PA) A Senseless Procession |
| Vale of Pnath Between the Worlds of Life and Death |
| Valis Ablaze Boundless |
| Valkyrie (USA-VA) Fear |
| Vallendusk Vallendusk |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Vallendusk Heralds of Strife |
| Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him |
| Valravn The Awakening |
| Valve Thermoclines |
| Vampire Vampire |
| Vampirska Liminal Heart Paints the Deepest Shade of Serenity |
| Van Halen Women And Children First |
| Vananidr Beneath the Mold |
| Vananidr In Silence Descent |
| Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things |
| Vanessa Funke Void |
| Vanhelga Fredagsmys |
| Vanhelgd Deimos Sanktuarium |
| Vanhelgd Atropos Doctrina |
| Vanna Void |
| Vanum Ageless Fire |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil |
| Varmia Bal Lada |
| Varmia Prolog |
| Vassafor Malediction |
| Vassafor To the Death |
| Vastum Hole Below |
| Vastum Inward To Gethsemane |
| Vattnet Settler |
| Vehemence (FRA) Ordalies |
| Veiled (USA-PA) Black Celestial Orbs |
| Velnias Scion of Aether |
| Vemod (NO) The Deepening |
| Venefixion A Sigh from Below |
| Vengeful Spectre 殞煞 二 Vengeful Spectre II |
| Vennart Forgiveness and The Grain |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Venomous Concept Politics Versus The Erection |
| Venus Obscured Until Observed |
| Venusberg Cardinal Atlas Of Dungeons |
| Ver Apparitions of the Past |
| Verberis The Apophatic Wilderness |
| Vermilia Ruska |
| Vermin Womb Retaliation |
| Might just be the most chaotic thing I've listened to this year. |
| Verminous Serpent The Malign Covenant |
| Veruta Forked Tongue of Fire |
| Verwoed De Val |
| Verwoed The Mother |
| Vessel of Iniquity The Doorway |
| Vessel of Iniquity The Path Unseen |
| Vestige Janis |
| Veter Daemonaz Muse of the Damned |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum |
| Viande L'Abime Dévore les Âmes |
| Victims The Horse and Sparrow Theory |
| Vihan Messu Liittona Pimeyteesi |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten |
| Vile Creature Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! |
| Last two songs are absolutely fantastic. The first three songs of the album are a confusing mess, trying to take the best bits of Thou and The Body but never quite coming to the stunning result the duo intended. If the musicianship makes you feel as sick as the album cover does, Vile Creature have delivered here. |
| Vile Haint Sacrificial Baptism in Murky Waters |
| Vile Rites Senescence |
| Vile Ritual Caverns of Occultic Hatred |
| Villainy Villainy II: Dim |
| Vimur The Timeless Everpresent |
| Vindalf Undying Order Of The Black Flames |
| Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls |
| Violet Cold Anomie |
| Violet Cold Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia |
| Vipassi Śūnyatā |
| Vipassi Lightless |
| Virus (NO) Memento Collider |
| Virvum Illuminance |
| Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis |
| Visceral Disgorge Slithering Evisceration |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath |
| Vision of Disorder Razed To The Ground |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice |
| Vitskar Suden Vessel |
| Viva Belgrado Cancionero de los Cielos |
| Vltimas Something Wicked Marches In |
| Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary |
| Void Paradigm Ultime Pulsation | Demain Brûle |
| Void Wraith II |
| Voidescent Dust And Embers |
| Voivod The Wake |
| Oh Voivod, when will you stop being so damn awesome? |
| Vokonis The Sunken Djinn |
| VOLA Witness |
| VOLA Friend of a Phantom |
| Volcandra Border World |
| Volur Ancestors |
| Volus Merciful the Dying Light |
| Vomitheist Nekrofvneral |
| Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion |
| Vorga Beyond the Palest Star |
| Vorna Sateet palata saavat |
| Vortex of End Ardens Fvror |
| Vortice Host |
| Vorvan Once Love Was Lost |
| Vosbud Heklugjá |
| Vous Autres Sel de Pierre |
| Vrag Rendületlenül |
| Vredensdal Resurrecting the Wolf |
| Vreid Lifehunger |
| Vulgaris Asundre |
| Vulgaris Seat Of The Fire |
| Vulture Industries Stranger Times |
| Vulture Industries Ghosts From The Past |
| Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities |
| VVilderness Dark Waters |
| W.E.B. Tartarus |
| Wailin Storms The Silver Snake Unfolds |
| Waldgefluster Mondscheinsonaten |
| Waldgefluster Dahoam |
| Waldgefluster Unter Bronzenen Kronen |
| Walg IV |
| Wampyrinacht Night of the Desecration |
| Wanderer (MN) Indulgence of the Unreal |
| Wang Wen Invisible City |
| War of Ages Supreme Chaos |
| War Possession Doomed To Chaos |
| Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow |
| Warcrab The Howling Silence |
| Warforged I: Voice |
| The last few songs are incredible. The middle section of the album is where all songwriting sense flies out the window and you're left with a mess of multiple ideas-interesting though they may be-which don't culminate in something engaging or at least sensible, for want of a better word. I get this will be in many end-of-year album lists, but for me, it's missing some sort of glue to hold everything together. An inconsistent 75 minutes could have been narrowed down to a monumental 45 minutes here. |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial |
| Warlust Sol Invictvs In Vmbrae Satanae |
| Warrel Dane Shadow Work |
| Waste of Space Orchestra Syntheosis |
| Wayfarer Children of the Iron Age |
| Wayfarer World's Blood |
| Waylander The Light, The Dark and the Endless Knot |
| We Broke the Weather Restart Game |
| We Hunt Buffalo Living Ghosts |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster |
| Weald and Woe The Fate of Kings and Men |
| Weald and Woe For the Good of the Realm |
| Wear Your Wounds Rust on the Gates of Heaven |
| So much better than anything off WYW's first two albums. |
| Wearing Scars A Thousand Words |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit |
| Weedeater Sixteen Tons |
| Welkin (SGP) Emblems of Valour |
| Wells Valley Achamoth |
| Weregoat Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards |
| where mermaids drown Reminisce |
| Whiskey Ritual Black Metal Ultras |
| Whispered Metsutan - Songs of the Void |
| White Empress Rise of the Empress |
| White Flowers Are You |
| White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming |
| White Stones Kuarahy |
| White Stones Dancing Into Oblivion |
| White Void (NO) Anti |
| White Walls Grandeur |
| White Ward Debemur Morti |
| White Ward False Light |
| White Willow Future Hopes |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Whom Gods Destroy Insanium |
| Whoredom Rife Den Vrede Makt |
| Whores. Gold |
| Wild Throne Harvest of Darkness |
| Wilder Maker Male Models |
| Will Haven Muerte |
| Wills Dissolve Echoes |
| Windhand/Satan's Satyrs Split |
| Winds of Genocide Usurping the Throne of Disease |
| Winds of Tragedy Hating Life |
| Windswept The Onlooker |
| Wino Forever Gone |
| Winter Into Darkness |
| Winter Lantern Hymne To A Dismal Starre |
| Winter's Breath Stories Left Behind |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody Of Triumph |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing Of Heirdom |
| Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon |
| Wintersun Time II |
| Top album of the year on Metal storm with a rating of 9.3/10. lolwutrAnyway, I enjoyed this a bit more than Time 1, I just can't get behind the length of the last two songs tbh. |
| Witch Mountain Witch Mountain |
| Witch Ripper The Flight After The Fall |
| Witch Vomit Poisoned Blood |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service |
| Witchskull Coven's Will |
| Witchskull A Driftwood Cross |
| Witchsorrow Hexenhammer |
| With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire |
| Withered Grief Relic |
| Withered Verloren |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems |
| Witheria Infinite Recollection |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions |
| Silly, bombastic, but also very fun to listen to. Hearing this live should be an absolute blast. |
| Wo Fat Midnight Cometh |
| Wode Burn in Many Mirrors |
| Woe Hope Attrition |
| Woe Legacies of Frailty |
| Wolf King Path of Wrath |
| Wolfbastard Hammer the Bastards |
| Wolfheart Winterborn |
| Wolfheart Tyhjyys |
| Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light |
| Wolfheart Wolves of Karelia |
| Wolfheart King of the North |
| Wolftooth Valhalla |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge |
| Wolvhammer Clawing Into Black Sun |
| Wombo Fairy Rust |
| Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh |
| Wooden Veins Imploding Waves |
| Wormed Krighsu |
| Wormed Metaportal |
| Wormed Omegon |
| Wormlight Nightmother |
| Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within |
| Wormwitch Wolf Hex |
| Wormwitch Wormwitch |
| Wormwitch/Sadistic Ritual Split |
| Wormwood Nattarvet |
| Wormwood Arkivet |
| Worn Mantle Hole |
| Wovenhand Star Treatment |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Undo The Chains |
| Wraith (USA-IN) Fueled by Fear |
| Wretched Fate Carnal Heresy |
| Written In Torment Black Command |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun |
| WuW Rétablir L'eternité |
| WuW L'orchaostre |
| WVRM Colony Collapse |
| Wyrgher Panspermic Warlords |
| Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost |
| X.Y.R. Aquarealm |
| Xalpen Sawken Xo'on |
| Xandria Theater of Dimensions |
| Xenosis Paralleled Existence |
| Xentrix Seven Words |
| Xentrix Bury The Pain |
| XII Boar Beyond the Valley of The Triclops |
| Xiu Xiu Ignore Grief |
| Holy hell, this may just be the most unsettling album I've heard so far this year. I love stuff like that. Bonus points for the homemade music videos too, they're a strange yet fitting accompaniment for sure. |
| Xoth Exogalactic |
| Yakuza Sutra |
| Yaotl Mictlan Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar |
| Yatsu It Can't Happen Here |
| Yautja The Lurch |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| Year of the Knife Internal Incarceration |
| Yeruselem The Sublime |
| Yes Time and a Word |
| Yhdarl Loss |
| Ynkleudherhenavogyon Honan Bleydh II |
| Yoo Doo Right A Murmur, Boundless to the East |
| Yoo Doo Right Heights of Our Pastureland |
| Yoth Iria Blazing Inferno |
| Your Ghost In Glass Drowning to Escape the Fire |
| Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality |
| Yves Jarvis The Zug |
| Zaius Of Adoration |
| Zanias Chrysalis |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
| Feels like this is the album where Manuel Gagneux finally realizes his vision, the other two albums to me were a little off the mark but still ambitious. This latest effort is a real humdinger, every song has its own little charm. One of the year's more unique releases for sure. |
| Zed Volume |
| Zetra Zetra |
| Zhrine Unortheta |
| Zombi 2020 |
| Zombi Liquid Crystal |
| 3.0 good |
| SednA The Man Behind The Sun |
| (hed) p.e. Forever! |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts |
| 16 Into Dust |
| A Night in Texas Global Slaughter |
| A Reason To Travel Concrete Sunrise |
| A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames |
| A Storm Of Light Anthroscene |
| A Swarm of the Sun An Empire |
| A Trust Unclean Parturition |
| A Wake in Providence I Write To You, My Darling Decay |
| A.C.T. Heatwave |
| Abbath Abbath |
| Abbath Outstrider |
| Abhomine Larvae Offal Swine |
| Abhor (ITA) Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi) |
| Abhoria Abhoria |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark! |
| Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis |
| Abysmal Grief Blasphema Secta |
| Abysmal Grief Funeral Cult of Personality |
| Abythic Eden of the Doomed |
| Accept I'm A Rebel |
| Acherontas Ma-IoN 'Formulas Of Reptilian Unification' |
| Acres Burning Throne |
| Act of Impalement Infernal Ordinance |
| ADAM SUN |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Adorior Bleed On My Teeth |
| Aerosmith Night In The Ruts |
| Aerosmith Get A Grip |
| Aetherius Obscuritas A Sors Szürke Pora |
| Aidan Baker Gauge Amber Tones |
| Airbag The Century Of The Self |
| Aiwass The Falling |
| Akitsa Credo |
| Akraia Mistress |
| Al-Namrood Al Aqrab |
| Albion (UK) Lakesongs of Elbid |
| Alchemy of Flesh Ageless Abominations |
| Alexandra Grimal Refuge |
| Alexandra Spence Blue Waves, Green Waves |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider |
| Alice Cooper The Last Temptation |
| Alice Cooper Constrictor |
| Alice Cooper Special Forces |
| Alice Cooper From the Inside |
| Alice Cooper Lace and Whiskey |
| Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell |
| Alice Cooper Easy Action |
| Alkuharmonian Kantaja Shadowy Peripherals |
| All Hail The Yeti Screams From A Black Wilderness |
| All Hell The Grave Alchemist |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| Alpha Wolf Fault |
| Alpha Wolf/Holding Absence The Lost & the Longing |
| Alphataurus 2084: Viaggio nel nulla |
| Altar of Betelgeuze Echoes |
| Altar of Perversion Intra Naos |
| Aluk Todolo Voix |
| Amarok (USA-CA) Devoured |
| American Grandma Rare Knives of Light |
| American Nightmare American Nightmare |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army |
| An Evening With Knives Sense Of Gravity |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment |
| Ancient Back To The Land Of The Dead |
| Ancient Lights Ancient Lights |
| Ancient Wisdom A Celebration in Honor of Death |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| And. Almost Nothing |
| Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone |
| Anette Olzon Shine |
| Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest |
| Annihilator Set the World on Fire |
| Annihilator Metal |
| Annihilator Suicide Society |
| Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic |
| Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er] |
| Annisokay Devil May Care |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness |
| Anomalie Refugium |
| Anomalie Integra |
| Antagonist A.D. Haunt Me As I Roam |
| Anthrax Fistful Of Metal |
| Anthrax Stomp 442 |
| AntimateriA Valo aikojen takaa |
| Any Given Day Everlasting |
| Aorlhac Pierres Brûlées |
| Apocryphos Phantoms Received |
| Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash |
| Apostle of Solitude When The Darkness Goes |
| Aptorian Demon Liv Tar Slutt |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power |
| Archgoat The Apocalyptic Triumphator |
| Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation |
| Archvile King À La Ruine |
| Arctic Sleep Kindred Spirits |
| I liked the first few songs, if only because of their warmth and expansive soundscapes...but then the rest of the album unfolded in the same way, and there's only so many similar versions of opener "Meadows" that I can listen to before it gets really repetitive. There are golden moments, but it's often music fit for slumber rather than wonder. |
| Arm's Length Never Before Seen, Never Again Found |
| Arms and Sleepers Former Kingdoms |
| Ars Veneficium The Lurking Shadow of Death |
| Art of Attrition …And It Will All End Forever |
| Artillery B.A.C.K. |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| Ashbringer Absolution |
| This album has a consistently warm, alluring charm to it, using nice organic, acoustic instrumentation to balance the (not so heavy) atmospheric black metal parts which wear their influences on their sleeves. That said, I feel this album has a very thin sound and for that reason feels mostly incomplete, despite the dwindling melodies offering quite an inviting sensation. It's nice to sit and hum along to whilst daydreaming, but that's pretty much it. |
| Ashbringer We Came Here to Grieve |
| Album could be so much better if those vocals were to improve. A lot of this reminds me of the latest album from We never learned to live, but the obvious black/sludge/post-metal edges make it stand out much more musically. But yeah, vocals are a real inconsistent aspect. |
| Ashley Paul I am Fog |
| Ashtar Kaikuja |
| Asira Efference |
| Astral Sleep Astral Doom Musick |
| Astrophobos Corpus |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| Atena Shades Of Black Won't Bring Her Back |
| AthanaTheos Cross. Deny. Glorify. |
| Atomwinter Catacombs |
| Audn Farvegir Fyrndar |
| Aussichtslos Schicksalstotschlag |
| Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics |
| Automatic Excess |
| Avandra Prodigal |
| Aves Feathers |
| Avoid The Light Spleen |
| Axegrinder Satori |
| Axel Rudi Pell Knights Call |
| Axioma Sepsis |
| Ayreon Transitus |
| Azarath In Extremis |
| Ba'a Egrégore |
| Baazlvaat An Old Forgotten Text |
| Bad Breeding Human Capital |
| Bad Wolves Disobey |
| Balmog Vacvvm |
| Bane Don't Wait Up |
| Baptists Beacon of Faith |
| Barbarian Viperface |
| Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery |
| Battalions King of a Dead World |
| Batushka Hospodi |
| I mean this isn't awful. And I also couldn't care less about which version of Batushka this is. But yeah, let's all focus on everybody's day in court rather than which musical direction both parties have taken. |
| Beach House Become |
| Bear the Mammoth Purple Haus |
| Beartooth Disease |
| Beastmaker Lusus Naturae |
| Bedsore Hypnagogic Hallucinations |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean |
| Belgrado Intra Apogeum |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| Below A Silent Sky Walls of Light |
| Belphegor Necrodaemon Terrorsathan |
| Belphegor The Devils |
| Besra Anhedonia |
| Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm |
| Beyond The Black Lost in Forever |
| Bhayanak maut Man |
| Bhleg Äril |
| Bhleg Ödhin |
| Big|Brave A Gaze Among Them |
| Big|Brave Vital |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline |
| Biohazard New World Disorder |
| Biohazard Uncivilization |
| Bipolar Architecture Depressionland |
| Black Cilice Transfixion of Spirits |
| Black Crucifixion Lightless Violent Chaos |
| Black Eucharist Inn of the Vaticide |
| Black Fucking Cancer Procreate Inverse |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell |
| Black Magnet Body Prophecy |
| Black Mare Field of the Host |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol |
| Black Star Riders The Killer Instinct |
| Black Stone Cherry Kentucky |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark |
| Blasphemer The Sixth Hour |
| Blasphemous To Lay Siege and Conquer |
| Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black... |
| Blessthefall To Those Left Behind |
| Blind Seagull Personal Decay |
| Blindead Niewiosna |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Blondie Autoamerican |
| Blood Incantation Timewave Zero |
| Blood Red Throne Fit To Kill |
| Blood Youth Beyond Repair |
| Bloodletter Funeral Hymns |
| Bloodphemy Blood Sacrifice |
| Bloodshed Walhalla Glory to the Sacred Land |
| It's ok, but I can't stop thinking of Moonsorrow with extra cheese and annoying nasal vocals. |
| Bloody Hammers Songs Of Unspeakable Terror |
| Bloody Head Perpetual Eden |
| Bonehunter Evil Triumphs Again |
| Boris Love and Evol |
| Boris W |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice |
| Bosse-de-Nage Further Still |
| Bottomless The Banishing |
| Brimstone Coven The Woes of a Mortal Earth |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| British Lion The Burning |
| Bruce Dickinson Balls To Picasso |
| Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks |
| Brutality Will Prevail Misery Sequence |
| Brutus (NOR) Wandering Blind |
| Brymir Slayer of Gods |
| Buckethead Captain Eo's Voyage |
| Bulldozer The Day of Wrath |
| Bummer (USA-MO) Dead Horse |
| Bungler The Nature Of Being New |
| Bunuel Mansuetude |
| Burial Clouds Last Days of a Dying World |
| Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below |
| Bushman's Revenge All the Better for Seeing You |
| Caliban Elements |
| Call of the Void Buried in Light |
| Callisto Secret Youth |
| Camel Stationary Traveller |
| Camel Dust And Dreams |
| Can't Swim Thanks but No Thanks |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living |
| Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone |
| Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass |
| Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black |
| Capra Errors |
| Capstan The Mosaic |
| Carach Angren Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Carma Ossadas |
| Carnal Forge Gun To Mouth Salvation |
| Cauldron New Gods |
| Cavernlight As I Cast Ruin Upon... |
| Celestial Season The Secret Teachings |
| Celestial Season Mysterium I |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien |
| Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality |
| Cerebral Fix Disaster Of Reality |
| Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean Sisyphean Cruelty |
| Chaosbay 2222 |
| Cheem Guilty Pleasure |
| Chepang Swatta |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever |
| Chrch Light Will Consume Us All |
| Christian Mistress To Your Death |
| Ciemra The Tread of Darkness |
| Cien Maledictio |
| Circles Infinitas |
| Cirith Gorgor Sovereign |
| Cloakroom Dissolution Wave |
| Cloven Hoof Heathen Cross |
| Cobra the Impaler Karma Collision |
| Coffin Nail The Hanged Man |
| Coffinborn Cadaveric Retribution |
| Cognitive Matricide |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coilguns Watchwinders |
| Cold Night For Alligators Course of Events |
| ColdCell Those |
| ColdCell The Greater Evil |
| Come to Grief When the World Dies |
| Comedy of Errors Fanfare & Fantasy |
| Conveyer When Given Time To Grow |
| Conveyer No Future |
| Copperhead Gazing in the Dark |
| Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye |
| Corrupt Moral Altar Mechanical Tides |
| Cosmograf Heroic Materials |
| Count to Altek A Seraphia Entwined |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors |
| Just had a look at the album's wikipedia page, and it seems that the album is only 50 minutes long. So its not going to be as dreadfully long as Cradle's last two albums. It might still suck though... |
| Creeping Flesh ...And Then the Bombs Came |
| Crescent (EGY) The Order of Amenti |
| Cripper Follow Me: Kill! |
| Crisix From Blue to Black |
| Cross Vault As Strangers We Depart |
| Crossfaith Xeno |
| Crowbar The Serpent Only Lies |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky |
| Crucifyre Post Vulcanic Black |
| Crypta Echoes Of The Soul |
| Cryptae Capsule |
| Cult of Eibon Black Flame Dominion |
| Culted Oblique to All Paths |
| Ideas here are interesting but the main problem is that most of the songs are drawn out for too long. The first half of both 'Brooding Hex' and 'Illuminati' are brilliantly executed but at some point the instrumentation becomes rather stale, and though this does indeed suit the doom sub-genre rather well, there could have been a stronger emphasis on power and surprise than simple repetition. That said, 'March of the wolves' and 'Transmittal' are monolithic in atmosphere. |
| Culted Vespertina Synaxis... |
| Culture Killer Throes of Mankind |
| Curse Upon A Prayer The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism |
| Cursetheknife There's A Place I Can Rest |
| Cyborg Octopus Bottomfeeder |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Daedric Chamber Reverence of the Gods |
| Damned Spring Fragrantia Chasm |
| Dangers The Bend In The Break |
| Daniel Lioneye Vol. III |
| Danko Jones A Rock Supreme |
| Dantalion Time to Pass Away |
| Danzig Danzig 4 |
| Dark Forest (UK) Oak, Ash & Thorn |
| The closest thing to a British Elvenking we'll ever get. |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dawn of Azazel The Tides of Damocles |
| Honestly found this album a very mixed bag. Some songs I can't stand ("Vassalplasty", "The Odious Tides"), some I really enjoyed ("Irresistible Foe", "Controlled Burn") and others were just really strange to listen to "namely "Progeny of Pain" and "The Eagles Grasp"). I think the main flaw here is inconsistency, because some songs are really so much better than others, to the point where the actually stand out as being such. Nonetheless, it's decent for what it is but not much more. Some nice musical ideas thrown around, but by the end it leaves a little bit of underwhelming feeling, more so for those who expected this to be an excellent album. |
| Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly |
| Dayshell Nexus |
| Dead Feathers All is Lost |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire |
| Dead Lord Heads Held High |
| Dead Summer Society Decades |
| Deadly Circus Fire Extinction |
| Death Angel Killing Season |
| Death Bells Between Here and Everywhere |
| Death Like Mass The Lord of Flies |
| Death SS Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon |
| Deathhammer Evil Power |
| Deathstars The Perfect Cult |
| Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow |
| Deathwhite Grey Everlasting |
| Decembre Noir Pale Serenades |
| Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are |
| Deep Purple Slaves And Masters |
| Deep Purple Abandon |
| Deez Nuts Word Is Bond |
| Defy The Curse Horrors Of Human Sacrifice |
| Degial Savage Mutiny |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil |
| Deiphago Into the Eye of Satan |
| Deiphago I, The Devil |
| Denner/Shermann Masters of Evil |
| Denouncement Pyre Forever Burning |
| Dephosphorus Sublimation |
| Desaster The Oath of an Iron Ritual |
| Deserted Fear Drowned by Humanity |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild |
| Destruction Cracked Brain |
| Destruction Metal Discharge |
| Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. |
| DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I |
| Deville Make It Belong To Us |
| Devilment The Great And Secret Show |
| Devin Townsend The Hummer |
| Diabolic Night Beneath The Crimson Prophecy |
| Diamond Plate Pulse |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dimphonic Horriplex |
| Dio Lock Up The Wolves |
| Dirt Forge Interspheral |
| Discharge Shootin Up the World |
| Disentomb The Decaying Light |
| Disillusion The Liberation |
| Disintegration (USA-OH) Shiver in a Weak Light |
| Diskord Degenerations |
| Dodsengel Interequinox |
| Dold Vorde Ens Navn Mørkere |
| Domination Campaign Onward To Glory |
| Doom Beach Burden |
| Dopethrone Hochelaga |
| Decent head-nodding sludge/doom, no more, no less. |
| Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger |
| Dornenreich Du Wilde Liebe Sei |
| Doyle Doyle II: As We Die |
| Dragged Under Upright Animals |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce Extreme Power Metal |
| Dragonlord Rapture |
| Draken Draken |
| Drama Noir Nightfall Upon the Asylum |
| Dread Sovereign For Doom The Bell Tolls |
| Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Drottnar Monolith I |
| Drought (ITA) Trimurti |
| Drowse Wane into It |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Dry Cleaning Swampy |
| Duivel Heiligschennis |
| Dust Bolt Trapped in Chaos |
| Dust Bolt Mass Confusion |
| Dylan Carlson Conquistador |
| Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips |
| Earth Ship Soar |
| Earth Ship Resonant Sun |
| East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts |
| Good, but this album is essentially a mixed bag. Some songs are instrumentally brilliant, whereas others simply get lost in themselves far too quickly and as a result have no sense of direction. The vocals are okay, sometimes even brilliant, but too often seem to take away from the focus on the musicianship. It also suffers from the fact that the vocals appear a little too low in the mix, so what you're really hearing is an unbalanced sound. That said, the songwriting here is very consistent and near enough every song manages to regain its excellent musical quality because of that. My personal favourite song would be the instrumental 'A negligible senescence', though only because it focuses on instrumentation. |
| East of the Wall A Neutral Second |
| Eat Your Heart Out Can't Stay Forever |
| Ecstatic Vision Sonic Praise |
| Ecstatic Vision For The Masses |
| edIT Crying Over Pros For No Reason |
| Einherjer Norrøne Spor |
| Ekrom Uten Nådigst Formildelse |
| Eldamar A Dark Forgotten Past |
| Electric Citizen Helltown |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Elvenking The Scythe |
| Emma Ruth Rundle EG2: Dowsing Voice |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole |
| Emptiness Vide |
| Emyn Muil Elenion Ancalima |
| Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord |
| Endezzma The Archer, Fjord and the Thunder |
| Endon Boy Meets Girl |
| Endseeker The Harvest |
| Endstille Kapitulation 2013 |
| Decent, solid black metal for me but just way too repetitive to be enjoyed. |
| Ensiferum One Man Army |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Entrapment Through Realms Unseen |
| Entry Detriment |
| Envy Seimei |
| Epica Consign to Oblivion |
| couple of weak songs,but other than that this album is epic! |
| Epica The Alchemy Project |
| Epitimia Allusion |
| Eremit Desert of Ghouls |
| Escuela Grind Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall |
| Europe War of Kings |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Everything But the Girl Fuse |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth |
| Even though Evile's core faults are still evident in this album (too close to the overall thrash movement) there is some classic material here, as on the acoustic 'In Memoriam'. A brilliant album for 2011. |
| Evile Skull |
| Evocation The Shadow Archetype |
| Ex Deo The Thirteen Years of Nero |
| Exist Egoiista |
| Exnun Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death |
| Exodus Force of Habit |
| Extrema Headbanging Forever |
| Extreme Waiting For The Punchline |
| Extreme Cold Winter World Exit |
| Exumer Hostile Defiance |
| Eye Flys Eye Flys |
| Eyes Set to Kill Masks |
| Decent enough by Metalcore standards, but the vocals here really distract me from the (sometimes) brilliant heaviness on tracks such as 'Killing in your name' and 'Surface'. At least it's an improvement over the last few rubbish Metalcore albums I've had the pain of listening to. |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot |
| Faith No More Introduce Yourself |
| Falling in Reverse Just Like You |
| False Gods Neurotopia |
| Fathoms Lives Lived |
| Fearing Destroyer |
| Feed Them Death Negative |
| Ferum Asunder/Erode |
| Fire from the Gods Narrative |
| Firebreather Under a Blood Moon |
| Firewind Few Against Many |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard to Find |
| Fleetwood Mac Penguin |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage |
| Flotsam and Jetsam I Am the Weapon |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars |
| Focus Mother Focus |
| Foehammer Monumentum |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Fornhem Stämman Från Berget |
| Frank Zappa Studio Tan |
| Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt |
| Frank Zappa The Man from Utopia |
| Frank Zappa Francesco Zappa |
| Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 Viva Las Violence |
| Free Free |
| Free Free at Last |
| Freedom Call Land Of The Crimson Dawn |
| From The Vastland The Haft Khan |
| Frowning Death Requiem |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice |
| Fudge Tunnel The Complicated Futility of Ignorance |
| Fugit Astral Consciousness |
| Fulgora Stratagem |
| Full Of Hell and Primitive Man Suffocating Hallucination |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves |
| Funeral Winds Stigmata Mali |
| Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain |
| Galactic Empire Episode II |
| Gallhammer Gloomy Lights |
| Gallhammer Ill Innocence |
| Gama Bomb Survival of the Fastest |
| Gama Bomb Citizen Brain |
| Gama Bomb The Terror Tapes |
| The vocalist had surgery before this album's production, so I guess the sub-par vocal delivery shouldn't be much of a shock. As it is though, the album is average albeit sometimes very decent thrash, a few songs for excellent listening. |
| Gama Bomb Untouchable Glory |
| Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage |
| Garbage Bleed Like Me |
| Gary Moore Grinding Stone |
| Gary Moore Back To The Blues |
| Gary Moore Scars |
| Gates to the Morning Walk Between Worlds |
| Geddy Lee My Favourite Headache |
| Gehennah Metal Police |
| Genesis Duke |
| Genesis Genesis |
| Gentle Giant Civilian |
| Gentle Giant The Missing Piece |
| Get Your Gun The Worrying Kind |
| GGGOLDDD Why Aren't You Laughing? |
| GGU:LL Dwaling |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover |
| Ghost Iris Apple of Discord |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak |
| Gift Giver Shitlife |
| Gjendod I Utakt Med Verden |
| Gloomer Embrace the End |
| Gloop Crayon Sun |
| Gnaw Their Tongues Hymns For the Broken, Swollen and Silent |
| Gnome (BEL) Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome |
| Goatwhore A Haunting Curse |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate |
| Godhead Machinery Masquerade Among Gods |
| Godhead Machinery Monotheistic Enslavement |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Golden Ashes (NL) In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night |
| Golden Earring Grab It for a Second |
| Golden Earring Cut |
| Golden Earring Tits 'n Ass |
| Golden Earring Miracle Mirror |
| Golden Earring On the Double |
| Golden Earring Love Sweat |
| Golgotha (ESP) Mors Diligentis |
| Gonemage Astral Corridors |
| Gong Continental Circus |
| Gong Shapeshifter |
| Gorilla Treecreeper |
| Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds |
| Gouge Away Burnt Sugar |
| Gozu Revival |
| Grand Funk Railroad Born To Die |
| Grave Dominion VIII |
| Grave Hating Life |
| Grave Out of Respect for the Dead |
| Grave Fiendish Regression |
| Grave Digger War Games |
| Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again |
| Grave Digger Return of the Reaper |
| Gravefields Tetragrammaton |
| Gravehill The Unchaste, the Profane, & the Wicked |
| Graverape Horrors of Life Eternal |
| Graves at Sea The Curse That Is |
| Graveworm Ascending Hate |
| Graveworm Collateral Defect |
| Graveworm When Daylights Gone |
| Great Cold Emptiness Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph |
| Great White Back to the Rhythm |
| Great White ...Twice Shy |
| Great White Hooked |
| Green Lung Woodland Rites |
| Greenleaf Rise Above The Meadow |
| Grey Skies Fallen Cold Dead Lands |
| It's an interesting find this. A lot of it reminds me of Pallbearer (the melodic doom parts obviously) but later on the album takes on a braver progressive style, one which utilizes the more extreme components of the band's sound and twists otherwise traditional styles into more adventurous soundscapes-not unlike what Cormorant have been doing since they formed pretty much. As Trey said before, the clean vocals probably stand out as the worst aspect here, but the musicianship is unique enough to keep things fresh and enticing at least in my opinion. |
| Grieve (FIN) Wolves of the Northern Moon |
| Grift Budet |
| Grin Phantom Knocks |
| Gruesome Twisted Prayers |
| Gruzja Koniec Wakacji |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy |
| Gus G. Brand New Revolution |
| GWAR Hell-O |
| GWAR This Toilet Earth |
| GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror |
| GWAR The Blood of Gods |
| Hail Conjurer Earth Penetration |
| Hail Spirit Noir Mannequins |
| Hakanai Decreation |
| Halford Halford IV - Made Of Metal |
| Hallucinate From The Bowels Of The Earth |
| HammerFall Glory To The Brave |
| HammerFall Dominion |
| Handful of Hate Adversus |
| Hanging Garden Against the Dying of the Light |
| Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma |
| Harborlights Isolation Ritual |
| Hark Machinations |
| Haust Negative Music |
| Havok Unnatural Selection |
| Probably the closest to average Havok will get. A lot of this is decent but unremarkable, especially when you compare to the previous two releases. |
| Havok Conformicide |
| Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space |
| Hawkwind The Xenon Codex |
| Hawkwind The Machine Stops |
| Hawkwind PXR5 |
| Hawkwind Choose Your Masques |
| Hawkwind Space Bandits |
| Hawkwind Electric Tepee |
| Hawkwind Alien 4 |
| Hawkwind Take Me to Your Leader |
| Hawkwind Blood of the Earth |
| Head of the Demon Sathanas Trismegistos |
| Heads For The Dead The Great Conjuration |
| Heart Magazine |
| Heart Dog & Butterfly |
| Heart Private Audition |
| Heart Passionworks |
| Heartist Feeding Fiction |
| Heaven's Club Here There And Nowhere |
| Hebosagil Yössä |
| Helheim rauniaR |
| Helheim Rignir |
| Helix Walkin' The Razor's Edge |
| Hellbutcher Hellbutcher |
| Hellevaerder In de Nevel van Afgunst |
| Hellions Opera Oblivia |
| Hellwitch Annihilational Intercention |
| Hellyeah Unden!able |
| Hemelbestormer A Ring Of Blue Light |
| Here Lies Man You Will Know Nothing |
| Hermit Knight Once |
| Herod Sombre Dessein |
| Hetroertzen Phosphorus Vol I |
| Hexis Abalam |
| Hexis Tando Ashanti |
| Hexis Aeternum |
| Hiems Stranger in a Wasteland |
| Hierophant (IT) Mass Grave |
| High Command Beyond the Wall of Desolation |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah |
| Hirax Immortal Legacy |
| The instrumentation here is very good, but the vocals drag the quality down a bit. They're not absolutely terrible, but for this style of metal the vocalist should adopt a different vocal delivery. |
| Horned Almighty To Fathom The Master's Grand Design |
| HORNSS Telepath |
| Horseback Dead Ringers |
| Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis |
| Hundredth Free |
| Huntress Starbound Beast |
| Huronian Beyond Frozen Heights |
| Hyems Anatomie des Scheiterns |
| Hypno5e Shores of the Abstract Line |
| Hypocrisy Catch 22 |
| Hypocrisy Worship |
| Hypoxia Abhorrent Disease |
| Ian Anderson Divinities: Twelve Dances with God |
| Iced Earth Framing Armageddon |
| Iced Earth Plagues Of Babylon |
| Ihsahn Amr |
| Illyria Take Me Somewhere Beautiful |
| Immortal War Against All |
| Impaled Nazarene Rapture |
| Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace |
| Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign |
| Impending Doom The Sin And Doom Vol. II |
| Imperium Dekadenz ...Und Die Welt Ward Kalt Und Leer |
| Imperium Dekadenz When We Are Forgotten |
| Impiety Versus All Gods |
| Impureza La Iglesia Del Odio |
| In Flames Siren Charms |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker |
| In Hearts Wake Skydancer |
| In Hearts Wake Ark |
| In Slumber While We Sleep |
| In the Company of Serpents Lux |
| In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| In This Moment Black Widow |
| In Thousand Lakes Age of Decay |
| Inanimate Existence Underneath a Melting Sky |
| Incantation Profane Nexus |
| Infera Bruo Cerement |
| Infera Bruo Rites of the Nameless |
| Ingested The Architect of Extinction |
| Inner Missing Dead Language |
| Insect Ark The Vanishing |
| Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe |
| Intig Vilsen |
| Invincible Force Satan Rebellion Metal |
| INVSN Let the Night Love You |
| Iperyt The Patchwork Gehinnom |
| Irkallian Oracle Apollyon |
| Isole Anesidora |
| Iterum Nata From the Infinite Light |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing |
| Jadu Heart Derealised |
| Jeremy Irons and the Ratgang Malibus Surge Ex Monumentis |
| Jinjer Macro |
| Jinjer Wallflowers |
| Jinjer is an example of a band I have tried so hard to get into, but each successive release just brings about a cloud of disappointment. The best thing I have to say about this album is that it's a tad more coherent than Macro, but the album really dwindles in terms of excitement after the first four songs. |
| Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth |
| Jungle Rot Order Shall Prevail |
| Jungle Rot Jungle Rot |
| Kadinja Super 90' |
| Kampfar Ofidians manifest |
| Kataklysm Goliath |
| Kayser Read Your Enemy |
| Kekal Deeper Underground |
| Ketha Wendigo |
| Keverra Keverra |
| Khost Buried Steel |
| Khost Governance |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer |
| Not quite as bad as people are making out, but that doesn't change the fact that this album-and band-are over-hyped. Half of the songs are little better than a sub-par Emmure/Slipknot crossover style yet the other half are somewhat experimental and, dare I say it, unique. The dark-tinged "Take it" and "Devil don't Cry" largely eclipse the monotony of songs like "Best Nite of my Life", and closer "State of Nature" succeeds in ending the album on a relative high. A mixed album which will undoubtedly divide fanbases in the near future, but which is also sort of career-defining. |
| King Woman Celestial Blues |
| King's X Three Sides of One |
| Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia |
| Kita Tyhjiö |
| Kollapse Ar |
| Kollwitz Dissonance |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korpiklaani Jylhä |
| Korpituli Pohjola |
| Kroh Pyres |
| Kryptos Afterburner |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad |
| Kull Exile |
| Look, I know this project features members past and present of Bal-Sagoth, but that doesn't stop me from thinking of this release as little more than a second-rate Cradle of filth. It's decent but honestly unremarkable. |
| KYOTY Isolation |
| Kyy Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo |
| Landmine Marathon Wounded |
| Last Rizla Noise Without Decay |
| Leaving Liminal |
| Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm |
| Leper Colony Leper Colony |
| Liber Null For Whom is the Night |
| Light of the Morning Star Wings in the Night Sky |
| Lightworker Fury by Failure |
| Like A Storm Awaken the Fire |
| Limbonic Art Opus Daemoniacal |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Lithium Dawn Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Locrian New Catastrophism |
| Lord Vigo Blackborne Souls |
| Lore Liege Dreams of a Forgotten Curse |
| Lorna Shore Immortal |
| Loss Horizonless |
| Lost Society Terror Hungry |
| Lotus Of Darkness Towards The Emerald Empire |
| Love Gang Meanstreak |
| Loviatar Loviatar |
| Low Flying Hawks Makebelieve |
| Lucifer (DE) Lucifer I |
| Lucifer's Child The Wiccan |
| Lucifer's Child The Order |
| Lucifuge Hexensabbat |
| Lunar Spells Demise of Heaven |
| Lunar Tombfields An Arrow To The Sun |
| Lustre (SWE) Still Innocence |
| Lysistrata Veil |
| Macabre Omen The Ancient Returns |
| Magnum Vigilante |
| Magoa Topsy Turvydom |
| Make Me A Donut Bright Side |
| Maladie ...of Harm and Salvation |
| Maladie The Grand Aversion |
| Malevich Trembling and Dowsed |
| Malignancy ...Discontinued |
| Mamaleek Diner Coffee |
| Manegarm Manegarm |
| Manes Be All End All |
| Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence |
| Mantar Pain Is Forever And This Is The End |
| Marche Funebre After The Storm |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down |
| Martyr Defiled Young Gods |
| Medieval Demon Black Coven |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! |
| Megosh Apostasy |
| Melvins Basses Loaded |
| Melvins A Walk With Love And Death |
| Memoriam The Silent Vigil |
| Willetts has now got the Chris Reifert effect. Musically, this sophomore effort is pretty inconsistent. Some songs are such a hard slog through tried-and-tested riffs that you'll be likely wondering why the band even bothered releasing this so soon after the debut's release in the first place. When the album gets good however, as with the album's last four songs, they demonstrate a clear source of inspiration. Oh well. |
| Memoriam Rise to Power |
| Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold |
| Mental Cruelty Inferis |
| Mephorash Shem Ha Mephorash |
| I'm going to get called hypocritical for making this point, but every single song on this album feels twice as long as they should be. Nonetheless, epic atmosphere and sinister musicianship is the order of the day, even if there's not much to get stuck into for fans of more "challenging" black metal. |
| Mercury Circle Killing Moons |
| Mercyful Fate Time |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Miasmata Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy |
| Misanthur Ephemeris |
| Misery Index Complete Control |
| Miss May I Deathless |
| Mizmor Cairn |
| Mizmor Wit's End |
| Model/Actriz Dogsbody |
| Moin Paste |
| Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter |
| Monolithe Nebula Septem |
| Monosphere The Puppeteer |
| Monster Truck Sittin' Heavy |
| Monte Pittman Inverted Grasp of Balance |
| Moodring Stargazer |
| Moonreich Fugue |
| Moortrieder Towards The Hills Of Triumph |
| Morag Tong Grieve |
| Moral Collapse Moral Collapse |
| Moribund Mantras ...Of Fathomless Depths |
| Morphinist Giants |
| Morrigan Anwynn |
| Mortem Agmen The Path to the Abyss of Evil |
| Mortuous Upon Desolation |
| Mosaic (DE) Heimatspuk |
| Mostly Autumn Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings |
| Motorhead Bad Magic |
| Murmuure Murmuure |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Mutiny Within Origins |
| Mutually Assured Destruction Ascension |
| My Silent Wake There Was Death |
| Myrkraverk Nær Døden |
| Mystras Empires Vanquished And Dismantled |
| Nachtblut Vanitas |
| Nadja Labyrinthine |
| Napoli Centrale Napoli Centrale |
| Nargaroth Era of Threnody |
| Nashville Pussy Up the Dosage |
| Natalie Evans Movements |
| Neander III |
| Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane |
| Nebula Holy Shit |
| Necros Christos Domedon Doxomedon |
| Nekrasov The Mirror Void |
| Neocortex Am Ende Des Feuers |
| Nervosa Downfall Of Mankind |
| Nexilva Eschatologies |
| Nibiru (ITA) Salbrox |
| Nibiru (ITA) Panspermia |
| Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven |
| Nightbringer Terra Damnata |
| Nightlands Moonshine |
| Nightmarer Cacophony of Terror |
| Nihil Invocation The Chaos of Our Lost and Evil Souls |
| Niht Arcanum |
| No Consequence Vimana |
| No Devotion No Oblivion |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect |
| Nocturnal Breed We Only Came for the Violence |
| Non Est Deus Impious |
| Nordic Frost Ov Blasphemy and Other Rites |
| Nordkvade Visdom and Makt |
| Norilsk Beyond the Mountains |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Northlane Node |
| Northlane Alien |
| Northless A Path Beyond Grief |
| Nortt Endeligt |
| Notturno Inside |
| Noumena Anima |
| Nova Charisma Metropolitan |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Novice (MI) Sorrow & Surrender |
| Nubivagant The Wheel and the Universe |
| Nubivagant The Blame Dagger |
| O'Brother Endless Light |
| Oak Pantheon The Absence |
| OAR The Blood You Crave |
| Obituary Inked in Blood |
| Obituary Obituary |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
| Obsidian Kingdom A Year With No Summer |
| Obsidian Kingdom Meat Machine |
| Obtest Tukstantmetis |
| Oceano Ascendants |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari |
| Oddland Vermilion |
| Odyrmos Odyrmos |
| Of Mice and Men Defy |
| OHHMS Exist |
| Old Forest Sutwyke |
| Omination NGR |
| Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone |
| Ommadon Ommadon |
| Ondt Blod Natur |
| One with the Riverbed Absence |
| OOMPH! Ritual |
| Oozing Wound We Cater To Cowards |
| Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse |
| Operation: Mindcrime The Key |
| Ophe Somnium Nocte Mendaciis |
| Ophiuchi Shibboleth |
| Opium Warlords Droner |
| Orbit Culture Shaman |
| Orden Ogan Gunmen |
| Orkan Livlaus |
| Orm Orm |
| Osees A Foul Form |
| Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick |
| OvO Ignoto |
| Pagan Altar The Room of Shadows |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Pantheist Seeking Infinity |
| Parkway Drive Ire |
| Patria Hexerei |
| Patriarchy The Unself |
| Pearly Drops A Little Disaster |
| Pensees Nocturnes Grand Guignol Orchestra |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange |
| Perdition Temple Merciless Upheaval |
| Pestilence Hadeon |
| Pestilength Solar Clorex |
| Pestlegion Sathanas Grand Victoria |
| Petyr Petyr |
| Phantom Winter Her Cold Materials |
| Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue |
| Pia Isa Dissolve |
| Pig Destroyer The Octagonal Stairway |
| Pile All Fiction |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Prey |
| Plasmodium Towers of Silence |
| uhhhhh....yeah. This is certainly an album. A very left of field album. |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Porcelain Porcelain |
| Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut |
| Porta Nigra Weltende |
| Post Animal Love Gibberish |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Powerman 5000 Builders of the Future |
| Powerwolf Blessed and Possessed |
| Predatory Light Predatory Light |
| Prevalent Resistance Dynamics of Creation |
| Prevalent Resistance To Live Again and Dominate |
| Primitive Man Fear/A life of turmoil |
| Primitive Man Insurmountable |
| Primus The Desaturating Seven |
| Prize Horse Under Sound |
| Process of Guilt Black Earth |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross |
| Prognan Sjene Nad Balkanom |
| Prong Zero Days |
| Psychedelic Witchcraft Sound Of The Wind |
| Psychostick IV: Revenge of the Vengeance |
| Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns |
| Purtenance Buried Incarnation |
| Pylar A Ella Te Conduce La Sagrada Espyral |
| Queensryche Condition Human |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Ragnarok Psychopathology |
| Raised By Owls Dreadful |
| Raspberry Bulbs Before The Age Of Mirrors |
| Raum Kingdom Raum Kingdom |
| Reaper (SWE) The Atonality Of Flesh |
| Reaping Asmodeia Impuritize |
| Rebel Wizard Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response |
| Red Fang Only Ghosts |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Red Spektor Red Spektor |
| Refused Freedom |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile |
| Reptilian Death The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence |
| Decent album here with solid instrumentation, but there is very little variety and a lack of truly memorable moments. The band used to be parodic, yet on this album seem to attempt a more serious take on Technical/Brutal death metal. |
| Revenant Marquis Milk Teeth |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection |
| Ringworm Snake Church |
| Rise Against Wolves |
| Rise to the Sky Every Day, A Funeral |
| Rise to the Sky Per Aspera Ad Astra |
| Ritual Dictates Give In To Despair |
| Rodent Epoch Rodentlord |
| Rotting Christ Rituals |
| Royal Hunt Dystopia, Pt. 2 |
| Runemagick Into Desolate Realms |
| Russian Circles Blood Year |
| Sabbath Assembly Rites Of Passage |
| Sacral Night Le Diadéme D'argent |
| Sacrifire The Art Of Decay |
| Sacrilegious Crown Forbidden Vestiges of Veneration |
| Sacrilegious Impalement IV - Infinite Victor |
| Sacrimonia Anthems of Eclipse |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus (2019) |
| Sammath Across The Rhine Is Only Death |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows |
| Sarke Bogefod |
| Saver They Came with Sunlight |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear |
| Scale the Summit Subjects |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr |
| Secrets of the Moon Sun |
| Didn't really get much out of this in the end. Opener "No more Colours" and "Dirty Black" are really well-written, but the rest of the album in my opinion seems to fall flat. That's not including the fact that the vocals for the most part irritate me somewhat. The album's whole run-time is over 50 minutes, but it could easily have been more concise had the mid-section of the album (namely "Man Behind the Sun" through to "I took the Sky Away") been shortened a little. |
| Seeds Of Contemplation Contemplations on Hidden Meanings |
| Seeker Unloved |
| Selim Lemouchi And His Enemies Earth Air Spirit Water Fire |
| Interesting in parts, but this album just has a 50/50 balance of good psychedelic music and boring ambient sections which frankly left me hovering over the skip button. Maybe with the band's next album they can come up with something truly unique, but the debut album is simply above average at best. |
| Selvans Faunalia |
| Sounds far removed from what this band did on the split with Downfall of Nur. With that in mind, this is pretty bizarre stuff and most of the time sounds like a cheesy, folksy version of mid-to-late 90s Cradle of Filth, with some unconvincing transitions from epic black metal riff sections to atmospheric, pagan-infiltrated musicianship. Still decent, but a bit hodge-podge too. |
| Semblant Vermilion Eclipse |
| Sermon Birth Of The Marvellous |
| Serpentine Path Emanations |
| Serpents Oath Ascension |
| Sharp Weapons Sharp Weapons |
| Shields Life In Exile |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock |
| The second song is terrible on this album, but then both covers at the end as well as "Jag Ar din Fiende" and "Mot Aokigahara" are really good, well-written in my opinion. Overall, it's an album that fares just above average weighing the inconcistency of it all. |
| Shrapnel (UK) Palace for the Insane |
| Sidus Atrum Розірване Небо |
| Siege of Power Warning Blast |
| Silent Descent Turn To Grey |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound |
| Silent Planet When the End Began |
| Siriun Siriun |
| Skin Tension Celebrant |
| Skindred Kill the Power |
| Skyclad Forward into the Past |
| Skyforger Senprūsija |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon |
| Sleep Terror Railroad to Dystopia |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| Sleestak Harbinger |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slomatics Strontium Fields |
| Slowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn |
| Sodom Epitome Of Torture |
| Sodom Decision Day |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body |
| Soft Kill Canary Yellow |
| Solbrud Jaertegn |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn |
| Sons of Balaur Tenebris Deos |
| Sons of Crom The Black Tower |
| Sorcerer The Crowning Of The Fire King |
| Sorcia Lost Season |
| Sordide Ainsi Finit Le Jour |
| Spectrum Mortis Bit Meseri - The Incantation |
| Spider God Possess the Devil |
| SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse |
| Staraya Derevnya Boulder Blues |
| Starkill Shadow Sleep |
| Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple |
| Steve Lacy (USA-CA) Gemini Rights |
| Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex |
| Just not feeling this tbh. It sounds as generic as Steven Wilson can get but the songs with Ninet Tayeb do stand out in a good way, plus there's a few moments in the album that bring me back to when I first heard LightBulb Sun. |
| Stone Temple Pilots High Rise |
| Stoned Jesus Pilgrims |
| Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become |
| Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You |
| Stormruler Under the Burning Eclipse |
| Strigoi Viscera |
| Strigoi Bathed in a Black Sun |
| Structures Life Through a Window |
| Stygian Crown Stygian Crown |
| SUMAC What One Becomes |
| SUMAC The Healer |
| Sumerlands Sumerlands |
| Summoning Lugburz |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Superjoint Caught Up in the Gears of Application |
| Superlynx Electric Temple |
| Susperia The Lyricist |
| Sweat Lodge Talismana |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance |
| It's not death metal, it's not conventional, but it also seems to be missing a lot of substance as well. I tried to get into many of the songs here but there's a sheer lack of oomph charging most of these songs which, aside from the obviously unique musical ideas at work here, lets the album down quite a bit. Maybe I am missing a trick, but it certainly doesn't feel like it for now. |
| Sworn In The Lovers/The Devil |
| Sylvaine Wistful |
| Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End |
| Sympuls-e Immensity |
| T.O.M.B. Fury Nocturnus |
| T.O.M.B. Thin the Veil |
| Tableau Mort VIsio In Somniis |
| Tardive Dyskinesia Harmonic Confusion |
| Teitan In Oculus Abyss |
| Temple of Katharsis Macabre Ritual |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses |
| Terrorizer Caustic Attack |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Testament Titans of Creation |
| Tetrarch Unstable |
| Texas Murder Crew Everyone's Last Breath |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence |
| The Agonist Orphans |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre The Future Is Your Past |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed |
| The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee |
| The Dark Element The Dark Element |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space |
| The Ditch and the Delta The Ditch and the Delta |
| The Doors The Soft Parade |
| The Drin Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom |
| The Elysian Fields New World Misanthropia |
| The Ember, The Ash Fixation |
| The Evil The Evil |
| The Exploited Death Before Dishonour |
| The Flower Kings By Royal Decree |
| The Funeral Orchestra Negative Evocation Rites |
| The Gathering The West Pole |
| The Great Discord The Rabbit Hole |
| the hatch shape of raw to come |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye |
| I think a lot of focus on trying to attempt an overall "different" sound made this album feel like a mixed bag in the end. I mean, it's certainly promising most of the time and is as adventurous as The Haunted's previous two records, but it simply grows weary after the first few tracks have unfolded their fury. Not saying this is boring material, but it does require a few listens if you're looking to get something out of it. The only two songs which really stand out-and do so because they're excellently well-written-are "The Drowning" and "The Reflection" in my opinion. Everything else seems solid but largely unmoving. |
| The Haunted Made Me Do It |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr |
| The Haunted Versus |
| Perhaps more aggressive and straightforward than its predecessor, but Versus is still The Haunted going through their own motions. Solid and sometimes great as the music is here, it shares the same flaws with much of the band's discography in that the experience gets tiresome too quickly, resulting in a mixed bag of an effort once again. Songs do stand out-notably "Pieces" and "Trenches"-but they don't make up for an otherwise fairly average effort. |
| The Intersphere Wanderer |
| The Iron Son Enemy |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life The Violent Sound |
| The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots |
| The Moth Gatherer The Comfortable Low |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression |
| The Necromancers Where The Void Rose |
| The Obsessed Sacred |
| The Offering Seeing the Elephant |
| The Omnific The Law of Augmenting Returns |
| The Poisoned Glass 10 Swords |
| The Raven Age Conspiracy |
| The River A Hollow Full of Hope |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords |
| The Sorcerer A Graveyard of fallen dreams |
| The Spirit Songs Against Humanity |
| The Tangent To Follow Polaris |
| The Telescopes Growing Eyes Becoming String |
| The Troops Of Doom A Mass to the Grotesque |
| The Voynich Code Aqua Vitae |
| Theatres Des Vampires In Nomine Sanguinis |
| TheNightTimeProject Pale Season |
| Therion Leviathan |
| Thirdface Do It With A Smile |
| Thou Art Lord Daemoniorum |
| Thragedium Lisboa Depois De Morta |
| Thrall Schisms |
| Thrawsunblat Insula |
| Thron Pilgrim |
| Throwdown Intolerance |
| Thumos The Course of Empire |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya |
| Can't really get behind the high rating for this. Too long for its own good and despite some passages really gaining momentum ("Veneration for the Fireborn" in particular) it didn't really stick with me as I expect it to. |
| Thyrathen Lakonic |
| Time Lurker Emprise |
| Together to the Stars As We Wither |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour |
| Torch Runner Endless Nothing |
| Torrid Husk Caesious |
| TotalSelfHatred Solitude |
| Toxic Holocaust Primal Future: 2019 |
| Trap Them Crown Feral |
| Trial (SWE) Motherless |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls |
| Trna Istok |
| Truckfighters V |
| True Widow Avvolgere |
| Truth Corroded Bloodlands |
| Tumulation Haunted Funeral Creations |
| Tuskar Matriarch |
| Tusmorke Hestehoven |
| TV Priest My Other People |
| Twitching Tongues Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred |
| Two Face Sinner Spiritual Nemesis |
| Uada Djinn |
| Ueldes The Veil Of Mountains |
| UFO UFO 2: Flying |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Teufelsbücher |
| Underdark (UK) Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re-Entry |
| Unreqvited Disquiet |
| Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio |
| Urn Iron Will of Power |
| Urne Serpent and Spirit |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence |
| Usurpress Interregnum |
| Utopia (UK) Stalker |
| Uzumaki (USA) Examination Linguistics |
| Valborg Der Alte |
| Valient Thorr Old Salt |
| Valis Ablaze Render |
| Valley of the Sun Old Gods |
| Vanum Legend |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Veil of Maya False Idol |
| Venom Prison Animus |
| Venomous Maximus Firewalker |
| Vesilinja Merkurius |
| Vesperian Sorrow Awaken the Greylight |
| Vestindien Null |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry |
| Video Nasties Dominion |
| Vio-Lence Let The World Burn |
| Virta Horros |
| Visions Of Atlantis The Deep & The Dark |
| Visions Of Atlantis Wanderers |
| Vnder A Crvmbling Moon II: Aging & Formless |
| Voak Verdrängung |
| Void Of Silence The Sky Over |
| Void of Vision Children of Chrome |
| Void Rot Descending Pillars |
| Voivod War and Pain |
| Volumes Different Animals |
| Vredehammer Violator |
| W.A.S.P. Golgotha |
| Wage War Deadweight |
| Wakrat Wakrat |
| Walking Dead On Broadway Aeshma |
| Warfather The Grey Eminence |
| Warish Down in Flames |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse |
| We Are Harlot We Are Harlot |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War |
| Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210 |
| Werewolves The Dead Are Screaming |
| When Hearts Wither This Is Where It Ends |
| Whore of Bethlehem Ritual of Homicide |
| Why Bonnie 90 In November |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II |
| Wilt (DE) Into Nothingness |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower |
| Windhand Eternal Return |
| Winter Eternal Echoes of Primordial Gnosis |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Witch Mountain Mobile Of Angels |
| Witchskull The Vast Electric Dark |
| With the Dead Love from With the Dead |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human |
| Wolfbrigade Run With The Hunted |
| Wolfchant Bloodwinter |
| Wolfchant Omega : Bestia |
| Wolfhorde Hounds of Perdition |
| Wolves Den Miserere |
| Woorms Slake |
| Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns |
| Worm Shepherd Hunger |
| Wormwood The Star |
| Wothrosch Odium |
| Wovenhand Silver Sash |
| Wrong (USA-FL) Feel Great |
| Xibalba Años En Infierno |
| Yatra All Is Lost |
| Yith Dread |
| Young Lions Make a Rainbow and Put It in the Sky |
| Zeal and Ardor Wake of a Nation |
| Zeal and Ardor Greif |
| Zeit (DE) Ohnmacht |
| Zohamah Spread My Ashes |
| ZOM Flesh Assimilation |
| Zorya Mystic Lament |
