| Alpha Wolf Half Living Things | 3.7 |
| I don?t care what era this is from, what nu-wave it does or doesn?t represent. This kinda rips. |
| Cognizance Phantazein | 2.9 |
| Knoll As Spoken | 3.2 |
| Acausal Intrusion Panpsychism | 4.3 |
| Spawn of Annihilation Illusory Orbit of Ominous Anomalies | 4.0 |
| Alkaloid Numen | 3.6 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Amongst The Low And Empty | 3.8 |
| Myrkur Spine | 3.8 |
| Dreamwell In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You | 3.8 |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction | 3.9 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 3.7 |
| Suffocation Hymns From the Apocrypha | 3.5 |
| Earthside Let The Truth Speak | 3.9 |
| Cognizant Inexorable Nature of Adversity | 3.9 |
| Otep The God Slayer | 1.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific | 3.5 |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit | 4.0 |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper | 4.0 |
| Polaris Fatalism | 3.7 |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium | 4.0 |
| Sarmat Determined To Strike | 3.4 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Ashen | 3.3 |
| Fleshvessel Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed | 4.0 |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium | 3.6 |
| Chepang Swatta | 4.1 |
| Oxbow Love's Holiday | 3.7 |
| This is kind of low key, high key amazing and needs some more love. |
| Aetherian At Storm's Edge | 3.3 |
| VEXED (UK) Negative Energy | 3.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Kob' | 3.3 |
| Watain Lawless Darkness | 2.9 |
| Watain Casus Luciferi | 3.5 |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark | 3.5 |
| Watain Rabid Death's Curse | 3.0 |
| Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain | 3.0 |
| Kind of feel for the guys doing PR and advertising these days. This leaked way early. |
| Rise to Fall The Fifth Dimension | 3.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Alföld | 4.0 |
| Claustrum Claustrum | 3.3 |
| Burial Hordes Ruins | 3.3 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 4.0 |
| Unfurl Ascension | 3.8 |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis | 3.9 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.3 |
| Centralya That Which Feeds On Life | 2.9 |
| Kalmah Kalmah | 3.0 |
| Mesarthim Arrival | 4.2 |
| Mesarthim CLG J02182–05102 | 3.0 |
| Mesarthim The Density Parameter | 3.5 |
| Overkill Scorched | 3.3 |
| The Ocean Holocene | 3.2 |
| Pronostic Chaotic Upheaval | 3.3 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 2.5 |
| Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis | 3.7 |
| Omnerod The Amensal Rise | 4.2 |
| Damn boys and girls. Where?s the review for this and who is going to step up and do it? |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light | 3.3 |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow | 3.3 |
| Ascended Dead Evenfall of the Apocalypse | 3.3 |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts | 2.8 |
| Veil of Maya [m]other | 3.1 |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite | 3.9 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration | 4.8 |
| Esoctrilihum Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac | 4.7 |
| Harry Fucking Potter and the Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac |
| Krallice Porous Resonance Abyss | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous | 2.9 |
| I bet this has guitar parts or something. |
| Currents The Death We Seek | 2.3 |
| Honestly this is the soundtrack to dirt being warmed up. |
| Atreyu The Hope Of A Spark | 2.5 |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations | 3.6 |
| Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas | 3.8 |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current | 4.3 |
| As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet | 2.8 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams | 3.0 |
| Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate | 3.9 |
"fuck me"
This is what consent looks like ladies and gentlemen. |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 2.6 |
| VoidCeremony Threads of Unknowing | 3.8 |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb | 3.0 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 3.0 |
| Asystole (USA-NY) Siren To Blight | 2.8 |
| Spirit Possession Of the Sign ... | 3.3 |
| Keep of Kalessin Katharsis | 3.3 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun | 3.0 |
| nothing,nowhere. Void Eternal | 3.3 |
| Liturgy 93696 | 3.5 |
| The HIRS Collective We're Still Here | 3.8 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Saturnian Bloodstorm | 3.3 |
| Hanging Garden The Garden | 3.8 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.8 |
| Entropia (PL) Total | 4.0 |
| Stomb Massive Disturbed Meta Art | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven | 3.0 |
| Phantom Elite Blue Blood | 2.5 |
| Kamelot The Awakening | 3.8 |
| Skin Tension Celebrant | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 2.4 |
| Hyperdontia Deranged | 3.7 |
| Ellende Ellenbogengesellschaft | 3.5 |
| Ignominy (CAN) Imminent Collapse | 3.2 |
| Gorod The Orb | 3.3 |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre | 2.9 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 4.0 |
| Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All | 4.1 |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD Digital Red | 3.2 |
| Haken Fauna | 3.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 3.5 |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility | 4.0 |
| Flub Dream Worlds | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Lighting Up the Sky | 2.3 |
| Anachronism Meanders | 3.5 |
| Steel Panther On the Prowl | 1.0 |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags | 3.6 |
| Not going to lie. This is kind of fire. I do wish for something a little more progressive but damn, this works. |
| Man Must Die The Pain Behind It All | 3.7 |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die | 2.8 |
| Superterrestrial The Fathomless Decay | 3.4 |
| Avatar Dance Devil Dance | 3.3 |
| Ulthar Anthronomicon | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Helionomicon | 3.5 |
| Falaise After All This Time | 3.3 |
| In Flames Foregone | 2.9 |
| This album has moments. I like moments. There are also moments I don?t like. |
| Osiah Chronos | 2.8 |
| Skald (FRA) Huldufólk | 3.6 |
| Tentacult Lacerating Pattern | 4.0 |
| Mithridatum Harrowing | 3.5 |
| Fvnerals Let the Earth Be Silent | 3.5 |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy | 3.6 |
| Ashen Horde Antimony | 3.0 |
| Idle Ruin The Fell Tyrant | 3.3 |
| The World Is Quiet Here Zon | 4.0 |
| Conjureth The Parasitic Chambers | 3.7 |
| Dryad The Abyssal Plain | 3.8 |
| Nothingness Supraliminal | 3.9 |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars | 3.9 |
| Riverside ID.Entity | 2.7 |
| Beyond The Black Beyond the Black | 2.0 |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs | 4.2 |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything | 2.8 |
| Esoctrilihum Funeral | 3.7 |
| Disfiguring the Goddess Karnival | 3.2 |
| Esoctrilihum Saopth's | 3.8 |
| Rotting Christ The Apocryphal Spells, Vol. I + Vol. II | 3.5 |
| Crosses permanent.radiant | 3.7 |
| Strigoi Viscera | 3.3 |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times | 3.0 |
| Vimur Transcendental Violence | 3.4 |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 2.9 |
| Fell Ruin Cast in Oil the Dressed Wrought | 3.9 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 4.0 |
| Drudkh All Belong To The Night | 3.7 |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress | 3.7 |
| Nostromo (CHE) Bucephale | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Perplex Cities | 2.1 |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation | 3.5 |
| Kennebec Without Star or Compass | 3.7 |
| Black Anvil Regenesis | 3.5 |
| Worm Bluenothing | 3.2 |
| Arkheth Clarity Came With A Cool Summer's Breeze | 3.2 |
| Fit for a King The Hell We Create | 2.8 |
| Universally Estranged Dimension of Deviant Clusters | 3.1 |
| Psychonaut Violate Consensus Reality | 3.6 |
| Vevaki Fórnspeki | 3.8 |
| Arkaik Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts | 3.0 |
| Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society | 3.2 |
| Taylor Swift Midnights | 2.3 |
| Ripped to Shreds 劇變 (Jubian) | 3.6 |
| Cabal (DK) Magno Interitus | 3.0 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.5 |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | 1.5 |
| Lamb of God Omens | 2.9 |
| Languish Feeding The Flames Of Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 2.0 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.0 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Chimaira The Infection | 2.5 |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell | 3.0 |
| Until I Wake Inside My Head | 2.9 |
| Faceless Burial At The Foothills Of Deliration | 3.8 |
| Keiji Haino and Sumac Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood... | 3.4 |
| Birds in Row Gris Klein | 3.8 |
| Boston Manor Datura | 2.1 |
| Firtan Marter | 3.2 |
| Gonemage Handheld Demise | 3.3 |
| Snot Get Some | 3.0 |
| Mamaleek Diner Coffee | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Morbidity Triumphant | 2.9 |
| Null (USA) Origin | 3.3 |
| Within Destruction Lotus | 3.3 |
| Acausal Intrusion Seeping Evocation | 4.3 |
| Slipknot The End, So Far | 2.3 |
| Coldworld Isolation | 2.5 |
| Drowning Pool Strike a Nerve | 1.0 |
| Triumvir Foul Onslaught to Seraphim | 3.8 |
| Maul Seraphic Punishment | 3.3 |
| Kings of Mercia Kings of Mercia | 3.0 |
| Gaerea Mirage | 3.5 |
| Frayle Skin & Sorrow | 3.1 |
| Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever | 2.9 |
| Noah Cyrus The Hardest Part | 3.9 |
| Toughness The Prophetic Dawn | 3.3 |
| Miscreance Convergence | 3.7 |
| Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram | 2.8 |
| Sunflo'er All These Darlings and Now Me | 3.3 |
| Revocation Netherheaven | 3.4 |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 3.2 |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene | 3.5 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 3.5 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 4.0 |
| Revocation Deathless | 4.0 |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe | 3.3 |
| Bloodbath Survival of the Sickest | 3.2 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Retribution | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky | 3.5 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.5 |
| Birth (USA-CA) Born | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Darker Still | 1.0 |
| Frank, the rater of 3.5's did not in fact rate this a 3.5. |
| Warforged The Grove | Sundial | 3.7 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Banefyre | 3.8 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 3.8 |
| Xenobiotic Prometheus | 3.4 |
| Sigh Shiki | 3.6 |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine | 3.4 |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! | 2.5 |
| Miss May I Curse of Existence | 2.3 |
| Excuse me sir. Can I have my metalcore cold and stale, as if recycled from the 2000?s? Thanks. |
| Vermin Womb Retaliation | 3.9 |
| Conan Evidence of Immortality | 3.7 |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 3.3 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown | 2.9 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Muse Will of the People | 2.0 |
| I Prevail TRUE POWER | 1.5 |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten | 3.6 |
| Parasite Inc. Cyan Night Dreams | 3.6 |
| Desolate Shrine Fires of the Dying World | 3.7 |
| Aronious Irkalla | 4.0 |
| Savage Master Those Who Hunt At Night | 2.4 |
| Psycroptic Divine Council | 3.5 |
| Liminal Shroud All Virtues Ablaze | 3.8 |
| Grima Frostbitten | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers | 2.8 |
| Soulfly Totem | 3.4 |
| Verberis Adumbration of the Veiled Logos | 3.8 |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army | 3.3 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 2.5 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.5 |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 3.3 |
| If we judge the upcoming record by the singles alone, this album is going to be a bop and a half. |
| Fleshrot (USA-TX) Unburied Corpse | 2.8 |
| Body Asphyxiation Science Gravitational Blood Art | 3.2 |
| Ashenspire Hostile Architecture | 3.8 |
| Krallice Psychagogue | 4.3 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter III | 3.4 |
| Reeking Aura Blood And Bonemeal | 3.7 |
| Domestic Terminal All The Stories Left To Tell | 3.6 |
| Oceans of Slumber Starlight and Ash | 3.3 |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy | 4.4 |
| Greylotus Dawnfall | 3.7 |
| Wormrot Hiss | 3.8 |
| This album art looks like something Johnny would review. |
| Exocrine The Hybrid Suns | 3.4 |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai | 3.4 |
| Conjurer Pathos | 4.4 |
| Shinedown Planet Zero | 2.7 |
| Saor Origins | 3.3 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum | 1.5 |
| Candy (USA) Heaven Is Here | 3.8 |
| Oni (CAN) Loathing Light | 3.3 |
| Vatican Ultra | 2.3 |
| Inanimate Existence The Masquerade | 3.6 |
| Ataraxy The Last Mirror | 3.7 |
| Kreator Hate Über Alles | 3.3 |
| Rings of Saturn Rings of Saturn | 0.5 |
| Dir En Grey Phalaris | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh | 4.5 |
| White Ward False Light | 4.3 |
| Nechochwen Kanawha Black | 4.1 |
| Seventh Wonder The Testament | 3.4 |
| Deathfuckingcunt Decadent Perversity | 3.3 |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive | 3.3 |
| Decapitated Cancer Culture | 2.4 |
| Kardashev Liminal Rite | 3.9 |
| Soreption Jord | 3.6 |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom | 2.7 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 4.2 |
| Bog Body Cryonic Crevasse Cult | 2.8 |
| Luminous Vault Animate The Emptiness | 2.9 |
| This album sounds just like the artwork looks. Some of it slants, some of it bleeds - but oh man there's colours too! |
| Horn Verzet | 3.7 |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | 4.1 |
| Freja Tides | 3.8 |
| Bleed from Within Shrine | 3.1 |
| Bleed from Within Uprising | 3.5 |
| Bleed from Within Fracture | 3.5 |
| Malevolence Malicious Intent | 3.2 |
| As straight-forward and unyieldingly consistent this is I'm quite impressed. Mid year metal stocking filler for sure. |
| Ibaraki Rashomon | 3.6 |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph | 3.7 |
| Misery Index Complete Control | 3.0 |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Discarnate Ails | 3.8 |
| Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way | 3.3 |
| Dischordia Triptych | 3.7 |
| Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence | 3.6 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 3.2 |
| Golgothan Remains Adorned in Ruin | 3.3 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 3.0 |
| Abysmal Dawn Nightmare Frontier | 2.8 |
| Waxwolf Our Love | 3.5 |
| Kaleidoscope progressive whatever the hell kind of metal you listen to through a straw. Like that time you dipped a French fry into a choc sundae and shit just worked. |
| Visionary Cybergenerated | 3.9 |
| Astral Tomb Soulgazer | 4.0 |
| Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon | 3.7 |
| Mercyful Fate In the Shadows | 4.0 |
| King Diamond Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| Kvaen The Great Below | 3.6 |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future | 4.5 |
| Absent In Body Plague God | 3.5 |
| "I really want more. I wish it was longer." That's what she said. |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat | 2.3 |
| Sakis Tolis Among the Fires of Hell | 3.4 |
| Haxkapell Eldhymner | 3.0 |
| Konvent Call Down The Sun | 3.7 |
| Yumi Zouma Present Tense | 3.2 |
| Secrets of the Moon Black House | 2.5 |
| Charli XCX Crash | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah None | 3.7 |
| Deathbell A Nocturnal Crossing | 3.0 |
| Lack the Low God-Carrier | 4.7 |
| Jenny Hval Classic Objects | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz | 3.3 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| Ramihrdus The Sorrow of the Evergreens | 3.6 |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera | 3.2 |
| AngelMaker Sanctum | 3.5 |
| Sylvaine Nova | 3.4 |
| Slipknot Slipknot: 10th Anniversary Edition | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa: 10th Anniversary Edition | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Antennas to Hell | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell | 1.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds | 2.0 |
| The Birthday Massacre Fascination | 1.5 |
| Meshuggah Immutable | 3.1 |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 3.4 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You | 2.8 |
| The Flower Kings By Royal Decree | 3.2 |
| Abraham Débris De Mondes Perdus | 3.9 |
| WAIT (USA) The End of Noise | 1.5 |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind | 3.1 |
| Naxatras IV | 3.0 |
| Allegaeon Damnum | 3.7 |
| 1349 Liberation | 2.5 |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| 1349 Hellfire | 3.5 |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts | 3.5 |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium | 3.5 |
| Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas | 2.5 |
| Dark Funeral Attera Totus Sanctus | 2.5 |
| Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus | 3.0 |
| Dark Funeral Where Shadows Forever Reign | 3.5 |
| Vader The Ultimate Incantation | 4.0 |
| Vader Revelations | 3.0 |
| Vader The Beast | 2.5 |
| Vader Impressions In Blood | 2.5 |
| Vader Necropolis | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations | 2.5 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) | 3.3 |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 | 3.0 |
| Hate Eternal Fury & Flames | 3.0 |
| Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst The Ashes | 3.0 |
| Hate Eternal Infernus | 3.0 |
| Krisiun Black Force Domain | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Apocalyptic Revelation | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Krisiun Ageless Venomous | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Works of Carnage | 2.5 |
| Krisiun AssasiNation | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Bloodshed | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Southern Storm | 3.0 |
| Krisiun The Great Execution | 3.0 |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury | 2.5 |
| Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned | 2.5 |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross | 3.0 |
| Deicide Insineratehymn | 2.0 |
| Dagoba Post Mortem Nihil Est | 3.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 2.5 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 2.5 |
| Code Orange Forever | 2.5 |
| Otep Generation Doom | 1.5 |
| Otep Kult 45 | 1.0 |
| Jesu Infinity | 2.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.0 |
| Jesu Terminus | 3.0 |
| Blood Incantation Timewave Zero | 3.5 |
| Ysyry Mollvun Ysyry Mollvün | 3.8 |
| Ancient Burials Shepherd of the Dead | 3.3 |
| Reaping Asmodeia Darkened Infinity | 2.5 |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder | 2.9 |
| Deathless Void Deathless Void | 3.3 |
| Near Death Condition Ascent From the Mundane | 3.7 |
| Dagoba By Night | 1.5 |
| Pure Wrath Hymn To The Woeful Hearts | 3.2 |
| Dark Millennium Acid River | 3.6 |
| Immolation Acts of God | 3.5 |
| Amber Mark Three Dimensions Deep | 3.9 |
| Kim Petras Slut Pop | 2.7 |
| Totally Unicorn High Spirits//Low Life | 3.5 |
| Mossgiver The Song Among Branches | 3.5 |
| Near Death Condition The Disembodied - In Spiritual Spheres | 3.5 |
| Once Human Scar Weaver | 3.3 |
| Lifesick Misanthropy | 3.8 |
| Hexerei Ancient Evil Spirits | 3.5 |
| Gelure The Candlelight Tomes | 3.0 |
| Gelure Into the Chesfern Wood | 3.0 |
| Au Clair de Lune Diaphanous Deities | 3.0 |
| Au Clair de Lune Au Clair de Lune | 3.0 |
| Tormentor Tyrant Tormentor Tyrant | 2.8 |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 3.5 |
| Aeviterne The Ailing Facade | 4.0 |
| Father Befouled Crowned in Veneficum | 3.6 |
| Father Befouled Desolate Gods | 3.0 |
| Father Befouled Morbid Destitution of Covenant | 3.5 |
| Father Befouled Revulsion of Seraphic Grace | 3.5 |
| Father Befouled Obscurus Nex Cultus | 3.0 |
| Author and Punisher Kruller | 3.7 |
| Deicide Serpents of the Light | 3.0 |
| Deicide Scars of the Crucifix | 2.5 |
| Deicide In Torment in Hell | 2.0 |
| Deicide Legion | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North | 4.2 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Zorzysta Staje Ocma | 3.5 |
| Voivod Synchro Anarchy | 4.0 |
| Skin Tension Omni | 5.0 |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor | 2.1 |
| Saxon Carpe Diem | 3.0 |
| Pestilength Basom Gryphos | 2.6 |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay | 3.0 |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms | 3.5 |
| Morbus Chron A Saunter Through The Shroud | 3.5 |
| Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift | 3.5 |
| Negativa (ESP) 04 | 4.0 |
| Yeule Glitch Princess | 4.0 |
| rTo answer your question Jesp: Yes, yes I did. I especially vibe with the two week ambient track at the end of the record. |
| Imperialist Zenith | 3.4 |
| Persefone Metanoia | 3.3 |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... | 3.3 |
| Acranius Mercy Denied | 2.6 |
| YRRE Luhlae x The Witch | 3.7 |
| Korn Requiem | 2.3 |
| Breaths Though Life Has Turned Out Nothing Like I Imagined | 2.9 |
| Venom Prison Erebos | 3.8 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 3.0 |
| Battle Beast Battle Beast | 3.8 |
| Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons | 4.0 |
| Praying Mantis Katharsis | 3.3 |
| Amorphis Halo | 4.3 |
| As much as I'm against calling out early album of the year candidates this early, Halo sets the bar high. I'm going to sit here and enjoy the hype. |
| Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion | 4.2 |
| Sallow Moth Failure to Find | 3.5 |
| Vile Ritual Vile Ritual | 2.8 |
| Vile Rites The Ageless | 3.0 |
| Minneriket Gjennom Meg Går Ingen Til Hvile | 3.8 |
| Truculency The Dome Collector | 3.0 |
| Phreneticis Maze of Time | 3.7 |
| In Loving Memory (SPA) The Withering | 3.0 |
| Battle Beast Circus of Doom | 3.8 |
| This is a blast. Big eighties feels, AOR vibes. If I didn?t know any better this would all I?d be listening to this year. |
| Druid Lord Relics of the Dead | 3.1 |
| Earthless Black Heaven | 3.5 |
| Slytherin Tales of Hogsmeade Village | 2.7 |
| Abyssus Death Revival | 3.7 |
| Catacomb (SWE) Embrace Decay | 3.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Of Stone and the Stars in the Sky | 3.0 |
| Pensees Nocturnes Douce Fange | 3.7 |
| SOM The Shape of Everything | 3.6 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 3.5 |
| Boris W | 2.0 |
| Fragments Of Lost Memories Divagate | 3.5 |
| Aequorea Dim | 4.0 |
| Illvilja Endless Rivers | 2.9 |
| Nogothula Gore Vortex Ascension | 3.5 |
| Quell (USA-CA) The Kvlt Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Ereb Altor Vargtimman | 3.8 |
| Culak Holy Tempest | 3.2 |
| Drifter (USA-GA) Drifter | 3.3 |
| Comes for the riffs, stay for the riffs, riff for the riffs. Be the riff. |
| Moongates Guardian The Wind Over Dale | 3.1 |
| Wintaar Deathentrance | 3.0 |
| Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns | 3.0 |
| Mizmor Wit's End | 3.4 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 2.7 |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road | 4.0 |
| Abbath Dread Reaver | 2.2 |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis | 3.5 |
| Wilderun Epigone | 3.4 |
| The Mist From the Mountains Monumental - The Temple of Twilight | 3.4 |
| The Last of Lucy Moksha | 2.5 |
| Descent Order of Chaos | 3.2 |
| Needless The Cosmic Cauldron | 3.0 |
| Shape of Despair Return to the Void | 3.8 |
| Vorga Striving Toward Oblivion | 3.9 |
| Nihility Beyond Human Concepts | 3.3 |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen | 2.3 |
| Godless Truth Godless Truth | 3.3 |
| Hath All That Was Promised | 3.7 |
| You Hath to hear this. This is pretty impressive. Already liking it more than the debut. |
| OAR The Blood You Crave | 3.7 |
| Necrophagous In Chaos Ascend | 3.5 |
| As Everything Unfolds Within Each Lies The Other | 2.0 |
| Lorem Ipsum Vivre encore | 3.0 |
| Yith Passage | 3.3 |
| Unsolicited Unsolicited | 2.5 |
| The Temple (NZ) The Temple | 3.8 |
| Cadaveric Fumes Echoing Chambers Of Soul | 3.3 |
| Vaticinal Rites Vaticinal Rites | 3.3 |
| Morbific Ominous Seep of Putridity | 3.3 |
| Big Dumb Face Christmas in the Cave of Dagoth | 2.2 |
| Maladie The Sick Is Dead - Long Live the Sick | 1.5 |
| Atrae Bilis Apexapien | 3.5 |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape | 3.5 |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity | 3.7 |
| Keep of Kalessin Reptilian | 3.5 |
| Keep of Kalessin Kolossus | 3.0 |
| Keep of Kalessin Armada | 3.0 |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | 3.3 |
| Old Tower The Last Eidolon | 2.5 |
| Noise Trail Immersion Curia | 3.4 |
| Palsied Certain Death Austerities | 3.5 |
| Hadal Maw Oblique Order | 3.5 |
| Wombbath Tales of Madness | 3.0 |
| Wombbath Agma | 3.2 |
| Dormant Ordeal The Grand Scheme of Things | 4.0 |
| Ofermod Mysterium Iniquitatis | 3.5 |
| Opera Diabolicus Death on a Pale Horse | 3.3 |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin | 3.3 |
| Esoctrilihum Urionhsol (Seven Demons) | 3.8 |
| Abscession Rot of Ages | 3.8 |
| Benothing Temporal Bliss Surrealms | 3.8 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Punishment and Devotion | 3.7 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Submission and Slavery | 3.8 |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil | 2.5 |
| Hypocrisy Worship | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Milk and Kisses | 3.0 |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä | 3.3 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine | 2.2 |
| All those guys whinging about Mastodon?s production where you at? At least those drum mixings are an easy target. |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal | 3.5 |
| Helslave From the Sulphur Depths | 2.7 |
| Plebeian Grandstand Rien ne suffit | 3.5 |
| Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget Zău | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation | 2.3 |
| Sion (USA) Sion | 2.7 |
| I'm glad that Howard's just making some no holds barred core, but this is pretty lacking in the creativity department. Some of these lyrics scream: unreleased Devil You Know album number three. |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 3.0 |
| Archgoat Worship the Eternal Darkness | 3.7 |
| Black Label Society Doom Crew Inc. | 2.5 |
| Zakk hasn't forgotten how to use the pentatonic, he also hasn't remembered there are other notes. As a last resort this does perfectly fine - there are some decent chops here but it's about as inspired as the rest of the discog. |
| Inquisition Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical... | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 3.5 |
| Inquisition Black Mass for a Mass Grave | 3.5 |
| Pathology The Everlasting Plague | 3.0 |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity | 3.5 |
| 200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel | 3.5 |
| Burial (ITA) Inner Gateways To The Slumbering... | 4.0 |
| I concur, I also believe this is deserving of a four. Although that might exactly be my opinion and definitely not science. |
| Funeral Praesentialis in Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Obscura A Valediction | 4.1 |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet | 3.3 |
| Adele 30 | 3.7 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime | 3.8 |
| Khemmis Deceiver | 3.1 |
| Repeated listens brings this down a bit. Some of these tracks begin to drag and feel about twenty minutes long. |
| Ars Magna Umbrae Throne Between Worlds | 3.8 |
| Vertebra Atlantis Lustral Purge in Cerulean Bliss | 3.8 |
| RuYYn RüYYn | 3.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers | 4.4 |
| Exodus Persona Non Grata | 2.4 |
| This has a few nice solos - but that?s about all it?s got going for it. |
| Teeth (USA-CA) Finite | 3.5 |
| Black Blood of the Earth Bleak Light, Fervent Dark | 3.0 |
| Perfectly acceptable background music with audible bass. Is it mind-blowing? No, it often meanders too much. However that doesn't mean it's not worth a casual listen. |
| Monument of Misanthropy Unterweger | 3.5 |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak | 3.8 |
| Fallensun The Wake Of The Fall | 3.0 |
| Ghost Bath Self Loather | 2.8 |
| Of the Wand and the Moon Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Belore Artefacts | 3.3 |
| Phrenelith Chimaera | 3.9 |
| Baazlvaat The Higher Power | 2.7 |
| Mortiferum Preserved in Torment | 3.6 |
| Zaaar Magická Džungl’a | 2.6 |
| Oublieth À l'Ombre du Royaume en Cendres | 3.8 |
| Conjureth Majestic Dissolve | 3.7 |
| Gaahls Wyrd The Humming Mountain | 3.2 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 3.0 |
| Autarkh Form in Motion | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 3.8 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.5 |
"Was looking forward to this album. Shame I can't hear most of it properly."
This sounds like a "you" problem no? |
| Skepticism Companion | 3.2 |
| Whitechapel Kin | 2.7 |
| First Fragment Gloire Eternelle | 4.0 |
First Fragment: we are going to play everything mmmmkay?
Sputnik music: Shut up and take my money! |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters | 2.0 |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 4.3 |
| Hippotraktor Meridian | 3.5 |
| Bad Wolves Dear Monsters | 1.0 |
| New Bad Wolves sounds like old Bad Wolves which is no real surprise. If no one told you they had a new vocalist since Vext went crazy or some shit, you could just assume it's business as usual. |
| Exsul Exsul | 3.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Nothing But The Truth | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile | 3.8 |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World | 2.8 |
| Primeval Well Talkin' in Tongues with Mountain Spirits | 4.2 |
| Sentinels (US) Collapse by Design | 3.3 |
| Worm Foreverglade | 4.0 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.9 |
| I really like these interludes, they provide such a great pacing. |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten | 3.0 |
| This album gonna nr de du lskar kommer knock yur fookin hed offf. |
| She Said Destroy Succession | 4.1 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 3.5 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 3.8 |
| Cognizance Upheaval | 3.7 |
| Serpent Column Katartisis | 3.0 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere | 2.9 |
| Iskandr Vergezicht | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions | 3.7 |
| Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 2.1 |
| So yeah, these guys had a world of potential, squandered away for cheap gimmicks, lazy song-writing and quasi PwD-esque vocals (intro track, dreaming back clockwork etc) which makes parts of this sound like lazy demos. When we couple this with a terrible attempt at cohesive writing, an over the top production and weird mixing it's no wonder Rivers of Nihil are dividing with this release. |
| Osi and the Jupiter Stave | 3.5 |
| Fustilarian All This Promiscuous Decadence | 3.4 |
| Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth | 3.5 |
| Sons of Alpha Centauri Push | 3.8 |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 3.3 |
| Eidola The Architect | 3.3 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 4.1 |
| Replicant Malignant Reality | 3.4 |
| Killsong He Is Risen | 3.6 |
| Eunuchs The Castration of Gods | 3.0 |
| Convulsing Errata | 3.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion | 4.3 |
You guys better get a new set of trousers ready; because you're about to mess the ones your
currently wearing. |
| Kacey Musgraves Star-Crossed | 3.6 |
| Aborted ManiaCult | 3.1 |
| "Yeah, can we start wiping ratings of people who just 1.5 random albums to obviously chase robjectivity scores"r"Unpaid contrarian staff moving the goalposts, as per usual"rOr we could stop giving away 4's like we're Oprah? Salty user being salty about other people rhaving a different opinion as per usual. |
| Antediluvian The Divine Punishment | 3.8 |
| Imagine Dragons Mercury - Act 1 | 0.5 |
| Ruin Spread Plague Death | 3.7 |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 3.5 |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului | 3.0 |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking | 3.2 |
| Orla Gartland Woman on the Internet | 3.2 |
| Hilltop Hoods The Great Expanse | 3.5 |
| Bliss N Eso Circus In The Sky | 3.0 |
| Bliss N Eso The Sun | 2.0 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power | 4.1 |
| Jinjer Wallflowers | 1.5 |
| Leprous Aphelion | 2.0 |
| Antediluvian λόγος | 4.0 |
| Feral Lord Purity of Corruption | 3.7 |
| Deimos Those Who Built the Sky | 3.3 |
| Noltem Illusions In The Wake | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.0 |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell | 2.5 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 2.5 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 3.4 |
| Tropical Fuck Storm Deep States | 4.1 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 2.5 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 2.1 |
| Ulver Hexahedron | 3.7 |
| Faron These Woods Which Turn Flesh to Bone | 1.5 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 3.9 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.4 |
| Ringare Thrall of Winter's Majesty | 3.7 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.9 |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Yablonya Звёздный зверь | 2.8 |
| Ushangvagush Mntu | 2.9 |
| Groza The Redemptive End | 3.5 |
| Moon Machine Moon Machine | 3.5 |
| Burzum Burzum | 4.0 |
| Burzum Thulêan Mysteries | 2.5 |
| Immolation Unholy Cult | 3.5 |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin | 3.0 |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light | 3.0 |
| Cara Neir Phase Out | 3.0 |
| I really don?t know what to make of this little ditty. So much love, so much hate. |
| Crown Magnetar The Codex of Flesh | 3.0 |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate | 3.8 |
| Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls | 3.9 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 3.7 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom | 1.5 |
| Disregard staff ratings, acquire sick riffs and blast beats |
| Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 2.5 |
| Diskord Degenerations | 4.1 |
| Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse | 0.5 |
| Doja Cat Planet Her | 2.4 |
| Rejecter The Vulgar Wine | 3.0 |
| Sunless Ylem | 4.4 |
| Sunless Urraca | 4.0 |
| Codex Nero The Great Harvest Of Death | 3.0 |
| Charnel Grounds Molecular Entropy Examined in the Bowels of a Grea | 3.3 |
| Cognos Cognos | 3.6 |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY | 1.5 |
| Dantalion Time to Pass Away | 2.0 |
| Graveslave No Center | 2.7 |
| Swelling Repulsion The Severed Path | 3.3 |
| Archspire All Shall Align | 3.5 |
| The Zenith Passage Solipsist | 3.0 |
| Vale of Pnath The Prodigal Empire | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| Papangu Holoceno | 3.8 |
| A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter I | 3.0 |
| A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter II | 3.0 |
| King Woman Celestial Blues | 4.2 |
| Lantlos Wildhund | 3.2 |
| Burial in the Sky The Consumed Self | 2.8 |
| Felled The Intimate Earth | 3.3 |
| Necrogod In Extremis | 3.3 |
| Erdve Savigaila | 3.9 |
| To The Grave Epilogue | 2.3 |
| Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial Passages | 3.5 |
| Xasthur Victims of the Times | 0.5 |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol | 3.7 |
| This Xeno, this is heaven metal?well, according to that Bandcamp website anyway. |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions | 3.4 |
| Karmanjakah A Book About Itself | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 4.0 |
| A quality but not so different approach for one time and current members of KsE, Songs are crafted with a high sense of song-writing skill. This album may however be a bit hard for some listeners to digest as songs and musical ideas blend together, and tempo and timing may feel un-conventional. Overall its worth a listen even if once is all you will be able to get through it. |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation | 2.9 |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum | 4.0 |
| Ophidian I Desolate | 4.1 |
| Sallow Moth Stasis Cocoon | 3.3 |
| Noctambulist The Barren Form | 3.3 |
| Evile Hell Unleashed | 3.0 |
| Saxon Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Saxon Battering Ram | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Drawn and Quartered Congregation Pestilence | 3.4 |
| Jimmy Barnes Flesh and Blood | 3.8 |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien | 2.0 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.0 |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns | 3.0 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance | 3.9 |
| Hacktivist Outside The Box | 2.0 |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist | 2.0 |
| Perilaxe Occlusion Raytraces of Death | 3.6 |
| Scale the Summit Subjects | 2.1 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 4.2 |
| Darkthrone Goatlord | 3.0 |
| Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me | 3.1 |
| Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon | 3.4 |
| Withered Verloren | 3.3 |
| Rhinocervs RH-15 | 3.0 |
| Rhinocervs RH-16 | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath | 2.8 |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness | 3.0 |
| Craven Idol The Shackles of Mammon | 3.0 |
| Craven Idol Towards Eschaton | 3.5 |
| Craven Idol Forked Tongues | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak | 4.1 |
| Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality | 4.0 |
| Lowen Unceasing Lamentations | 3.5 |
| Amenra De Doorn | 3.6 |
| They went and gone and run out of Roman numerals on this one didn?t they. |
| Pestilence Resurrection Macabre | 2.5 |
| Pestilence Exitivm | 2.7 |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence | 3.3 |
| Rebecca Black Rebecca Black Was Here | 2.2 |
| Hacktivist Hyperdialect | 1.5 |
| Helloween Helloween | 3.7 |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum | 2.0 |
| Grorr Ddulden's Last Flight | 2.1 |
| Coevality Multiple Personalities | 2.0 |
| Aara Triade I: Eos | 3.5 |
| Interloper Search Party | 2.6 |
| Firienholt By the Waters of Awakening | 3.6 |
| Code Flyblown Prince | 3.8 |
| Machine Head Arrows in Words from the Sky | 2.4 |
| Slayyyter Troubled Paradise | 2.5 |
| Sojourner Perennial | 3.0 |
| Replicant Negative Life | 3.9 |
| Svneatr The Howl, The Whisper, The Hunt | 2.5 |
| Svneatr Chinook | 2.5 |
| Necros Christos Doom of the Occult | 3.0 |
| Cruciamentum Engulfed In Desolation | 3.5 |
| Zealotry The Last Witness | 3.5 |
| Zealotry At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds | 3.5 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.0 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Karmacipher Necroracle | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon Fever Kingdoms | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon Growth Without End | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon Running Out Of Skin | 2.5 |
| Queen Of The Meadow Survival of the Unfittest | 3.2 |
| Dodsrit Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| Wythersake Antiquity | 2.7 |
| Seputus Phantom Indigo | 3.8 |
| Gorgon (FRA1) Traditio Satanae | 3.5 |
| Julia Michaels Not In Chronological Order | 3.7 |
| Traumatomy Extirpation Paradigms | 3.3 |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell | 3.4 |
| Mesarthim Vacuum Solution | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake | 3.5 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide | 3.4 |
| Dead and Dripping Miasmic Eulogies Predicating an Eternal Nocturne | 3.4 |
| Cognitive Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction | 3.0 |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss | 3.5 |
| Vile Haint Ol' Hatchie Haint | 4.0 |
| Hannes Grossmann To Where The Light Retreats | 2.5 |
| Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless | 3.4 |
| Sometimes this is a shonky mess, other times it's sounds very much on point. In the very least, this drummer is an actual beast. |
| Khandra All Occupied by Sole Death | 2.7 |
| Atreyu Baptize | 2.4 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 2.5 |
| Bloodbound Creatures of the Dark Realm | 2.2 |
| Portal Hagbulbia | 3.3 |
| Portal Avow | 4.0 |
| Xerath II | 3.0 |
| Xerath I | 3.0 |
| Alluvial Sarcoma | 3.3 |
| Unfathomable Ruination Decennium Ruinae | 3.5 |
| Gonemage Mystical Extraction | 3.0 |
| Yautja The Lurch | 3.7 |
| Logistic Slaughter Lower Forms of Life | 3.7 |
| Thurnin Menhir | 3.4 |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 3.3 |
| Orbyssmal Execration | 1.0 |
| Iosonouncane Ira | 4.0 |
| Terminalist The Great Acceleration | 3.7 |
| Seth La Morsure du Christ | 3.5 |
| Nordjevel Fenriir | 2.7 |
| Kataan Kataan | 2.9 |
| Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods | 3.4 |
| Incantation Decimate Christendom | 3.0 |
| Incantation Primordial Domination | 3.0 |
| VOLA Witness | 3.2 |
| Plasmodium Towers of Silence | 3.2 |
| Korpiklaani Jylhä | 1.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud Lanterns | 4.1 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 3.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 2.7 |
| Altarage Succumb | 3.8 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister | 4.2 |
| Threat Signal Disconnect | 2.5 |
| Threat Signal Threat Signal | 2.0 |
| Threat Signal Vigilance | 2.0 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 3.5 |
| Mnemic Passenger | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 2.5 |
| Wode Burn in Many Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth | 2.6 |
| Wait, are those blast beats? Nah, wait, yeah, kinda, maybe... |
| Acausal Intrusion Nulitas | 4.6 |
| Inoculation Celestial Putridity | 3.4 |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined | 3.6 |
| Estuarine Nyarlathotep | 3.4 |
| Moral Collapse Moral Collapse | 3.2 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.3 |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities | 3.7 |
| Esoctrilihum Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath | 4.2 |
| Intonate Severed Within | 3.8 |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman | 3.1 |
| Phlebotomized Pain, Resistance, Suffering | 2.5 |
| Kauan Ice Fleet | 3.9 |
| Ferriterium Calvaire | 3.5 |
| Null (USA) Hiraeth | 3.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 2.8 |
| Withering Reign Under The Bleeding Sun | 2.0 |
| Turris Eburnea Turris Eburnea | 4.1 |
| Obsolete Animate//Isolate | 3.3 |
| Evanescence The Bitter Truth | 2.6 |
| Skin Tension Machinic Impulses Of The Hyperreal | 3.7 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole | 3.0 |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals | 4.3 |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm | 4.1 |
| Omnikinetic Descensum | 3.0 |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst | 3.3 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schnee | 4.0 |
| Significant Point Into the Storm | 3.0 |
| Forhist Forhist | 3.5 |
| Jesse Berezan The Vermillion | 3.0 |
| Fossilization He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Gravecarver Spectral Carnage | 3.0 |
| Horndal Lake Drinker | 3.5 |
| Isgherurd Morth Hellrduk | 3.9 |
| Distant Dusk of Anguish | 2.1 |
| LANDMVRKS Lost in the Waves | 2.0 |
| Saxon Inspirations | 2.5 |
| Depths Of Hatred Inheritance | 2.5 |
| Morost Forged Entropy | 3.0 |
| Eremit Bearer of Many Names | 4.0 |
| Desolate Realm Desolate Realm | 3.0 |
| Fuath II | 3.4 |
| Fuath I | 3.5 |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb | 3.0 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.1 |
| Stortregn Impermanence | 3.7 |
| Spectral Lore I | 3.0 |
| Spectral Lore II | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore Ετερόφωτος | 3.5 |
| Solitude Exogenesis | 2.0 |
| Vinnum Sabbathi Of Dimensions and Theories | 3.0 |
| Sepulcros Vazio | 3.0 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 3.5 |
| Krallice Krallice | 4.0 |
| Krallice Diotima | 3.5 |
| Krallice Ygg Huur | 3.0 |
| Krallice Prelapsarian | 3.5 |
| Krallice Mass Cathexis | 3.5 |
| Eyehategod A History Of Nomadic Behavior | 2.0 |
| Krallice Demonic Wealth | 4.4 |
| Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor | 3.0 |
| Rob Zombie The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy... | 2.5 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 3.5 |
| Krallice Loüm | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Plaguewielder | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Total Death | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 5.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Hate Them | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags | 3.0 |
| Baest Necro Sapiens | 3.5 |
| Dreamshade The Gift of Life | 3.5 |
| Northlane 5G | 1.0 |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers | 2.5 |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie | 3.5 |
| Lifelover Erotik | 3.5 |
| Lifelover Pulver | 3.0 |
| Ablaze My Sorrow Among Ashes And Monoliths | 2.5 |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer | 3.3 |
| Dreamshade A Pale Blue Dot | 3.1 |
| A Pale Blue Dot is the best In Flames album since 2011. |
| Short Stack This is Bat Country | 1.0 |
| Short Stack Stack is the New Black | 1.0 |
| Abominable Putridity Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation | 3.5 |
| Secret Sphere Lifeblood | 2.5 |
| Mork Katedralen | 3.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 3.5 |
| Death core kids be cleaning the undersides of their desks right now...let?s be real. |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds | 4.0 |
| Vektor / Cryptosis Transmissions Of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Project Mishram Meso | 3.5 |
| Six Feet Under Undead | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under Unborn | 2.0 |
| Six Feet Under Torment | 1.5 |
| Six Feet Under Nightmares of the Decomposed | 1.5 |
| Five The Hierophant Through Aureate Void | 3.5 |
| The Scalar Process Coagulative Matter | 3.3 |
| Gravesend Methods Of Human Disposal | 3.0 |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen | 4.0 |
| Tortuga Deities | 3.0 |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix | 3.5 |
| Epica Omega | 3.0 |
| In Tormentata Quiete Krononota | 4.0 |
| Madison Beer Life Support | 2.5 |
| Moonspell Hermitage | 3.0 |
| Manifesting Obscenity Mahapralaya | 3.0 |
| Ominous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Night Eternal | 4.0 |
| Moonspell 1755 | 3.0 |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir | 3.0 |
| Moonspell Extinct | 3.5 |
| Demon King The Final Tyranny | 3.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... | 3.5 |
| Keys of Orthanc Of The Lineage Of Kings | 2.0 |
| Deus Mortem Emanations of the Black Light | 3.5 |
| The Amenta Revelator | 3.0 |
| Lake of Tears Ominous | 2.0 |
| Les Chants de Nihil Le Tyran Et L'esthète | 3.5 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 3.5 |
| Hazing Over Pestilence | 2.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere | 3.0 |
| Ancient Mastery Chapter One: Across The Mountains Of ... | 3.5 |
| The Amenta Flesh Is Heir | 4.0 |
| Stargazer (AUS) Psychic Secretions | 4.1 |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 3.5 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 4.7 |
| Some days I just absently scroll through the site's database, dropping 3's as I go but every so often I find an album that just begs the question: Jac 4.8/5 review when? |
| Altered Dead Returned to Life | 3.3 |
| Deathgoat Regurgitated into Existence | 3.0 |
| Chaos Echoes Ecstasy With the Nonexistents | 4.0 |
| Emptiness Vide | 3.0 |
| Sulphur Sun Placodermic Heraldry | 2.5 |
| Aborym Hostile | 3.0 |
| Demilich Nespithe | 4.5 |
| Pestilength Eilatik | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore Sentinel | 3.0 |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known | 3.0 |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity | 3.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether | 3.5 |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm | 3.9 |
| Eximperitus... Sahrartu | 3.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires | 4.0 |
| Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry | 3.0 |
| Sarin (CAN) You Can’t Go Back | 3.5 |
| Blurr Thrower Les Voûtes | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.5 |
| Revulsion (FIN) Revulsion | 3.0 |
| Accept Too Mean to Die | 2.0 |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving | 3.0 |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est Seven | 3.0 |
| Repaid in Blood Reflective Duality | 2.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites | 2.0 |
| *puts on dramatic, strained voice* ?hand....cannot.......erase!!!? |
| Fractal Generator Macrocosmos | 3.0 |
| Therion Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Hate Disposal Legacy | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Grima Devotion to Lord | 3.0 |
| Grima Tales of the Enchanted Woods | 3.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall Songs for the Enamel Queen | 3.5 |
| Asphyx Necroceros | 3.5 |
| Grima Rotten Garden | 3.5 |
| Grima Will of the Primordial | 3.5 |
| Yoth Iria Under His Sway | 3.0 |
| Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers | 3.5 |
| Mindwork Cortex | 2.5 |
| Wardruna Kvitravn | 4.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.0 |
| Encenathrakh Thraakethraaeate Thraithraake | 3.5 |
| Edenic Past Red Amarcord | 3.5 |
| Horna Kuoleman Kirjo | 3.0 |
| Soen Imperial | 3.5 |
| What peanut thinks this is album has djent in it? Imagine being Srpskicekic and not knowing what djent is. |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Soen Tellurian | 3.5 |
| Soen Lykaia | 3.0 |
| Growth (AUS) The Smothering Arms Of Mercy | 3.5 |
| Stass Songs of Flesh and Decay | 3.0 |
| Malakhim Theion | 3.0 |
| Darkened Kingdom Of Decay | 3.0 |
| Ingested Stinking Cesspool Of Liquified Human Remnants | 3.5 |
| Abiotic Symbiosis | 2.5 |
| Abiotic Casuistry | 3.0 |
| Abiotic Ikigai | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou The Helm of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full | 4.0 |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Senpai III | 2.5 |
| For Giants There, There | 2.0 |
| Slytherin When the Darkness Comes | 3.5 |
| Slytherin A Tale We'll Tell Of What Hath Been... | 3.0 |
| Mechina Siege | 3.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Gletschertor/Das schwarze Metall-Eisen | 4.0 |
| Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Traum | 4.0 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 3.5 |
| Serocs And When the Sky Was Opened | 3.5 |
| Serocs Vore | 3.0 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 3.5 |
| Manegarm Nattvasen | 3.0 |
| Manegarm Legions of the North | 3.0 |
| Manegarm Manegarm | 2.5 |
| Manegarm Fornaldarsagor | 3.0 |
| Cirith Ungol Frost and Fire | 3.5 |
| Svrm Занепад | 3.0 |
| Hornwood Fell Cursed Thoughts - Part I | 3.5 |
| Burning Palace Hollow | 3.5 |
| Atrae Bilis Divinihility | 3.0 |
| Fleshvessel Bile Of Man Reborn | 3.5 |
| Eoront Gods Have No Home | 3.0 |
| Caelestra Black Widow Nebula | 4.5 |
| Yashira Fail To Be | 4.0 |
| Atramentus Stygian | 3.5 |
| Deeds of Flesh Nucleus | 3.5 |
| ? Sooooo, is it the job of every contributor/staff writer to constantly underrate albums or...??rDamn you got us, we?re gonna have to get a new schtick. |
| Pillory Scourge upon Humanity | 3.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 3.5 |
| Lie in Ruins Floating in Timeless Streams | 3.0 |
| Lie in Ruins Towards Divine Death | 3.0 |
| Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 2.5 |
| Hatebreed Weight of the False Self | 2.0 |
| Ensiferum Thalassic | 3.0 |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts | 4.0 |
| Miley's 2020 album includes an excellent 80's throwback feel. Some of the influence appears too much on the nose - - but that doesn't take away from the fact that this somehow bops way more than it should. |
| Temple Nightside Pillars of Damnation | 2.5 |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Nights of the Dead: Live in Mexico City | 3.0 |
| Helloween Chameleon | 1.5 |
| Helloween My God-Given Right | 2.5 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Legacy of the Dark Lands | 2.5 |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Elite | 2.5 |
| Ricinn Nereid | 3.0 |
| Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas | 4.0 |
| With the End in Mind Tides of Fire | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum F'htansg | 3.5 |
| King Parrot Dead Set | 2.5 |
| King Parrot Holed Up In The Lair | 3.0 |
| Cryptodira The Devil's Despair | 3.5 |
| Calyces Impulse to Soar | 3.0 |
| Lord Almighty Wither | 3.5 |
| Arkan Lila H | 3.0 |
| Throane Une Balle Dans Le Pied | 3.0 |
| Guy Sebastian T.R.U.T.H. | 3.0 |
| Noxis Expanse of Hellish Black Mire | 3.0 |
| Vassafor To the Death | 3.0 |
| Revolting The Shadow At The World's End | 3.5 |
| Writhing (AUS) Eternalised In Rot | 3.0 |
| Draconian Under a Godless Veil | 3.5 |
| Myrath Shehili | 2.5 |
| Pallbearer Forgotten Days | 3.0 |
| The Flower Kings Waiting For Miracles | 3.0 |
| The Flower Kings Islands | 3.5 |
| Convulse Deathstar | 3.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 1.5 |
| Carcass Despicable | 2.5 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues I Speak The Truth, Yet With Every Word Uttered, Thousands Die | 3.0 |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Home | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Next | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga | 3.0 |
| Despite the woe-bad artwork, early singles says this will be considerably better than Ark. Thank fuck for that. |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.0 |
| Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Blood and Stone | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| John Petrucci Terminal Velocity | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Maximalism | 1.5 |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive | 2.5 |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Steelbath Suicide | 2.5 |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine | 3.5 |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide | 2.5 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 3.0 |
| SUMAC May You Be Held | 3.5 |
| Teramaze Are We Soldiers | 3.0 |
| Teramaze I Wonder | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Utgard | 3.5 |
| Serpent Column Kathodos | 3.5 |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest | 4.5 |
| Malfet Alban Arthan | 4.0 |
| Corey Taylor CMFT | 1.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Manifest | 2.0 |
| More of the same with even less impactful hooks. Amaranthe on autopilot needs a trajectory correction. |
| Deeds of Flesh Portals to Canaan | 3.5 |
| Uada Djinn | 3.0 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 3.5 |
| Lethian Dreams A Shadow of Memories | 3.0 |
| Chrome Waves Where We Live | 3.0 |
| Heathen Empire of the Blind | 2.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 2.9 |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.0 |
| this is an album that goes something something rawr rawr something rawr! |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations | 3.0 |
| Device Device | 2.5 |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber | 4.0 |
| Necrot Mortal | 3.5 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 3.0 |
| Angel Olsen Whole New Mess | 3.0 |
| Spook the Horses People Used to Live Here | 2.5 |
| Spook the Horses Empty Body | 3.0 |
| Anna von Hausswolff All Thoughts Fly | 4.5 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 3.5 |
| The Ruins of Beverast/Mourning Beloveth Don't Walk on the Mass Graves | 3.0 |
| Steve Von Till No Wilderness Deep Enough | 4.0 |
| Incantation Sect of Vile Divinities | 3.0 |
| Khthoniik Cerviiks Æequiizoiikum | 3.0 |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus | 4.0 |
| VoidCeremony Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional... | 3.5 |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville | 4.0 |
| Karmacipher Introspectrum | 3.5 |
| Metallica S&M2 | 3.5 |
| Metallica S&M | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 2.5 |
| Quite possibly the single best Unearth album in years. Or something to that extent anyways. |
| Katalepsy Terra Mortuus Est | 3.5 |
| Spirit Possession Spirit Possession | 3.5 |
| Faceless Burial Grotesque Miscreation | 3.0 |
| Faceless Burial Speciation | 3.5 |
| Haken Virus | 3.5 |
| Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels | 3.5 |
| Sleeper Vessels turns it around for Fawn Limbs. A definite move in the right direction. |
| Gaerea Limbo | 4.0 |
| Gaerea Unsettling Whispers | 3.5 |
| Ahtme Mephitic | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.0 |
| Can't say that I'm not not hyped for Swift's black metal/Agalloch worship album. |
| Lantern (FIN) Below | 3.5 |
| Lantern (FIN) Dimensions | 3.0 |
| Descend The Deviant | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal | 1.5 |
| Exocrine Maelstrom | 2.5 |
| Sojourner Premonitions | 3.5 |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons | 3.5 |
| Grey Daze Amends | 2.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove | 2.0 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Eden In Reverse | 3.5 |
| Kairon IRSE! Polysomn | 4.0 |
| Alestorm Curse of the Crystal Coconut | 2.5 |
| To The Grave Global Warning | 2.5 |
| Pyrrhon Abscess Time | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald | 5.0 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 3.5 |
| John Legend Bigger Love | 3.0 |
| Ulthar Providence | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God | 2.5 |
| Having some really mixed opinions on this. On one hand, Lamb of God's self-titled is cohesive - but it lacks all the flourishes and fluidity that made Ashes Of The Wake or As The Palaces Burn such stringent hits. The absence of Adler behind the kit is noticeable, stripping down some of the fundamental signatures that removed this band from a host of sound-hugging acts. Tracks like "Gears" and "Resurrection Man" resort to chug-a-long passages, doing away with the noodle Morton riffs. It's a shame because Blythe sounds particularly on point. |
| Thou Blessings of the Highest Order | 4.0 |
| Unreqvited Empathica | 4.0 |
| Behemoth A Forest | 2.5 |
| Grave Digger Fields Of Blood | 2.0 |
| Cosmovore Into the Necrosphere | 3.5 |
| Bonny Light Horseman Bonny Light Horseman | 4.5 |
| Xibalba Años En Infierno | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Chromatica | 3.5 |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 2.5 |
| Like how it's just assumed that "if you listen to metal, everything else is automatically shit". If this is you - it might be a worth a quick look at yourself. No way I'm not putting this into my Ulcerate and Winterfylleth playlists. |
| Esoctrilihum Eternity Of Shaog | 4.0 |
| Aeternam Al Qassam | 3.0 |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 4.0 |
| They know that is not actually a horse right? It's got antlers and shit... |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn | 4.0 |
| Havok V | 3.5 |
| Today Is the Day No Good To Anyone | 2.0 |
| Defeated Sanity The Sanguinary Impetus | 4.0 |
| Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity | 3.5 |
| Auroch From Forgotten Worlds | 3.5 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness | 3.5 |
| Allelic À Contre Vent | 4.0 |
| Elephant Tree Habits | 2.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 3.5 |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline | 3.0 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 3.5 |
| Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant | 3.0 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 3.0 |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black | 3.5 |
| Hexvessel Kindred | 3.0 |
| Vindland Hanter Savet | 3.0 |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon | 3.0 |
| Burden of Life The Makeshift Conqueror | 3.5 |
| Auroch Stolen Angelic Tongues | 3.5 |
| Glen Hansard This Wild Willing | 4.0 |
| Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno: Ab Initio | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 2.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 2.0 |
| Arsis Unwelcome | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettal EP | 2.5 |
| Black Curse Endless Wound | 4.0 |
| Gorephilia Severed Monolith | 3.0 |
| Symbolik Emergence | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| Funeral Leech Death Meditation | 3.5 |
| Maddie and Tae The Way It Feels | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 3.0 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 3.5 |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War | 2.5 |
| Mayhem Chimera | 3.0 |
| Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles | 2.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan | 2.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.5 |
| Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience | 3.5 |
| Mitochondrion Antinumerology | 3.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.2 |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure | 3.0 |
| Spell (CAN) Opulent Decay | 3.0 |
| Cordyceps Betrayal | 2.5 |
| Benighted Obscene Repressed | 3.0 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 3.0 |
| Rotting Kingdom A Deeper Shade of Sorrow | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream. | 3.5 |
| Allelic The Smoke of Atavistic Fires | 3.5 |
| Cabal (DK) Drag Me Down | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Sound of White Noise | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Stomp 442 | 2.0 |
| Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real | 2.0 |
| Anthrax We've Come for You All | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 1.5 |
| August Burns Red take their formula, water it down and slap a silly production on it. |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 2.5 |
| Dawn of Ouroboros The Art of Morphology | 2.5 |
| White Stones Kuarahy | 2.5 |
| Baring Teeth Transitive Savagery | 3.5 |
| Baring Teeth Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins | 3.0 |
| Baring Teeth Atrophy | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master | 3.5 |
| Angerot The Divine Apostate | 3.0 |
| Angerot The Splendid Iniquity | 2.5 |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia | 3.0 |
| Mazikeen The Solace of Death | 3.0 |
| Woorms Twitching, as Prey | 3.0 |
| Testament Titans of Creation | 3.0 |
| Carnosus Dogma of the Deceased | 3.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 2.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 3.5 |
| Carcass Swansong | 3.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel | 3.0 |
| Pestilence Doctrine | 1.5 |
| Pestilence Obsideo | 2.5 |
| Pearl Jam Gigaton | 2.0 |
| Holy Fawn The Black Moon | 3.0 |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 3.5 |
| Wake Devouring Ruin | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.7 |
| It's unfathomable, Ulcerate's consistently better than great performances over the years. Stare Into Death... is quickly becoming a top 3 Ulcerate experience. If you thought the closer was good, having the context of the rest of the record in front of it makes it all the more alimentary. |
| Lychgate Also Sprach Futura | 3.0 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers | 4.0 |
| Feminazgul No Dawn for Men | 4.0 |
| Afterbirth Four Dimensional Flesh | 3.0 |
| Earth Rot Black Tides of Obscurity | 3.5 |
| Turia Degen van licht | 3.5 |
| Neck of the Woods The Annex of Ire | 3.0 |
| Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine | 3.5 |
| Me And That Man New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| This is an approachable record featuring a motley crew of guest musicians and vocalists. Despite that, 'New Man...' doesn't push past a staple of compilation style soundscapes into something more. Matt Heafy's diversity is greater here than most of his later workings with Trivium and the Ihsahn featured "By The River" is remarkably fresh despite the safe bearings to which the album caters. |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance | 4.0 |
| I think there's a few regular sput users missing a trick here.... |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Servitude | 2.5 |
| Ovid's Withering Terraphage | 4.0 |
| You know what's chunky in 2020? Well, this is chunky in 2020. |
| Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer | 2.5 |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 4.0 |
| Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God | 3.0 |
| Huntsmen Mandala of Fear | 2.0 |
| Serpent Column Endless Detainment | 3.5 |
| Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa | 3.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| A defining movement in both Thrash and Metal, a highly influential band makes a highly influential album and creates a huge fan base over their now highlighted career. |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Karg Traktat | 2.5 |
| Falloch Diabolus | 2.0 |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain | 2.5 |
| Falloch Prospice | 3.0 |
| Fluisteraars Bloem | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 1.0 |
| Violet Cold Noir Kid | 3.5 |
| Death the Leveller II | 3.5 |
| Ruin Lust Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Ruin Lust Ruin Lust | 3.0 |
| Mourir Animal Bouffe Animal | 4.0 |
| Dens Taming Tongues | 2.5 |
| Dodecahedron Kwintessens | 3.0 |
| Conjureth Foul Formations | 3.5 |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man | 4.5 |
| Aborted TerrorVision | 2.5 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 4.0 |
| Dwaal Gospel Of The Vile | 4.0 |
| TERYKY OVERCOME | 3.0 |
| Clouds (INT) Durere | 2.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition The Harrowing of Hearts | 3.0 |
| Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World | 3.5 |
| Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn | 3.0 |
| Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality | 3.5 |
| Aesmah Walking Off The Horizon | 3.0 |
| Plague (GR) Portraits of Mind | 2.0 |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act II | 3.5 |
| Xanthochroid Of Erthe and Axen: Act I | 3.0 |
| Xanthochroid Incultus | 2.5 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 3.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 3.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger | 3.5 |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun | 2.5 |
| Landon Tewers Ai640 Pt. 3 | 3.5 |
| Not going to lie (yep, another core record with a decent rate). "Excrete" is especially beastly in its second half. |
| Thrawsunblat Great Brunswick Forest | 3.0 |
| Brain Stem Symptoms of Annihilation - Stage 2 | 3.0 |
| Here for a good time, not for a long time. This is some solid, if completely safe death metal. |
| Architects Daybreaker | 2.0 |
| Trvth A Galvanizing Derivation | 3.5 |
| Trvth Inordinate and Surpassing | 3.0 |
| Trvth Process of Adaptation | 4.0 |
| Kirk Windstein Dream In Motion | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.0 |
| this is a little 'dialled' in. new drummer has some serious chops, but there's a general intronaut vibe missing here. dunno, will give some more spins. |
| Skyforest A New Dawn | 4.0 |
| Sightless Pit Grave of a Dog | 2.5 |
| Forndom Daura Dura | 3.5 |
| Jordablod Upon My Cremation Pyre | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch F8 | 1.0 |
...not sure the lyrics could get any worse than the two singles currently released. Feel free to not test that FFDP...
edit: I stand corrected boys and girls; this is the pinnacle of lyrical evolution and should be treated as such. |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| Groblin and The Ballistics Groblin and the Ballistics | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 2.0 |
| Tombs Monarchy of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Reflections Willow | 2.0 |
| Ihsahn Telemark | 3.0 |
| Agnes Obel Myopia | 4.0 |
| VVilderness Devour the Sun | 3.0 |
| Xenobiotic Mordrake | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | 1.0 |
| Blosse Loin | 3.0 |
| Blosse Era Noire | 2.5 |
| Blosse Nocturne | 2.5 |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void | 3.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition Towards the Blaze of Perdition | 2.5 |
| Kvelertak Splid | 3.0 |
| Serenity The Last Knight | 1.5 |
| Manalyth Blood Moon | 3.0 |
| Obsidian Tongue Volume III | 3.5 |
| Ye Banished Privateers Hostis Humani Generis | 1.5 |
| Aevangelist De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.5 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 2.0 |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall | 3.5 |
| Svart Crown Wolves Among The Ashes | 4.0 |
| Azure Emote The Gravity of Impermanence | 2.5 |
| Azure Emote The Third Perspective | 3.0 |
| Konvent Puritan Masochism | 2.5 |
| Coffin Curse Ceased To Be | 3.0 |
| Moloken Unveilance Of Dark Matter | 3.0 |
| Sylosis The Supreme Oppressor | 3.0 |
| Aeonian Sorrow A Life Without | 3.5 |
| Fractal Gates Beyond The Self | 3.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 2.5 |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Quite pleased how these guys have turned their sound back around. As far as faux-melo-thrash goes this is more than acceptable. |
| Sivyj Yar Горе | 4.0 |
| Scath Na Deithe The Dirge of Endless Mourning | 3.0 |
| Vengeful Spectre Vengeful Spectre | 2.0 |
| Empire of the Moon Έκλειψις | 2.5 |
| Grimah Intricacies of Bowed Wisdom | 3.0 |
| Sylvaine / Unreqvited Time Without End | 3.0 |
| Jordablod The Cabinet of Numinous Song | 3.5 |
| Loving If I Am Only My Thoughts | 2.5 |
| Marrasmieli Between Land And Sky | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Quadra | 3.0 |
| Leeched To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse | 3.0 |
| Phalanx (USA-CA) Golden Horde | 3.0 |
| Aeonian Sorrow A Life Without | 3.5 |
| Dawn of Solace Waves | 2.5 |
| Svart Crown Abreaction | 3.0 |
| Svart Crown Profane | 4.0 |
| Insect Ark Portal/Well | 3.0 |
| Insect Ark Marrow Hymns | 3.0 |
| Grift Budet | 3.5 |
| Grift Arvet | 3.5 |
| Grift Syner | 3.5 |
| In This Moment Mother | 1.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Aurora | 1.5 |
| Butcher 666 Goats Carry My Chariot | 3.0 |
| God Dethroned Illuminati | 3.0 |
| Envy The Fallen Crimson | 4.0 |
| Abysmal Dawn Phylogenesis | 2.5 |
| I can't help but feel that Abysmal Dawn have found a middle ground to their meddlesome death metal. There's a lot here that would make a more tech-death orientated Cannibal Corpse fan happy, but there's equal measure of average bull-shit that cuddles into lazy blast beating and same same riffage. |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains | 3.5 |
| Novelists C'est La Vie | 4.0 |
| Defiled Infinite Regress | 3.0 |
| This is solid enough, but there's still nothing setting these guys apart from the we want to a more technical "Deicide". |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead X: The Godless Void and Other Stories | 3.0 |
| Sallow Moth The Larval Hope | 4.0 |
| Kauan Muistumia | 3.0 |
| Odious Mortem Synesthesia | 2.5 |
| Can't help shake off the feeling that this is completely underwhelming. Parts of this sound compressed, while others just noodle around almost aimlessly. |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 2.0 |
| Annihilator Ballistic, Sadistic | 2.0 |
| Jeff Waters solo album, featuring solos and honestly not much else... |
| Kristian Harting The Fumes | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter Winter Eternal | 3.5 |
| A definitive progression of sound. Especially considering record to record. While not overly exciting it does provide regular listens and some enjoyment. |
| Appalachian Winter Appalachian Winter | 3.0 |
| Appalachian Winter The Epochs that Built the Mountains | 2.5 |
| Cadaverette A Farewell to Earthly Existence | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| Dzo-nga Five Treasures of Snow | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Porta Nigra Schöpfungswut | 4.0 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II | 3.5 |
| Bill Fay Countless Branches | 3.0 |
| Helloween Better Than Raw | 3.5 |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell | 3.0 |
| Helloween 7 Sinners | 3.0 |
| Helloween Gambling with the Devil | 3.5 |
| Sutrah (CAN) Aletheia | 3.5 |
| Desolate (DE) Exceptionalism | 2.5 |
| Myrkur Juniper | 3.0 |
| Myrkur Myrkur | 3.0 |
| Myrkur Mareridt | 3.5 |
| Myrkur M | 3.5 |
| Minenwerfer Alpenpässe | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky | 3.0 |
| VVilderness Dark Waters | 3.5 |
| Haunt (USA-CA) Mind Freeze | 2.5 |
| Brothers Of Metal Emblas Saga | 3.0 |
| Lotus Thief Oresteia | 3.5 |
| Unreqvited Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Apocalyptica Cell-0 | 3.0 |
| Wormed Krighsu | 3.0 |
| Wormed Exodromos | 2.5 |
| Airbourne Boneshaker | 2.5 |
| Sodom Out of the Frontline Trench | 3.0 |
| Empyreal Forest Divinations | 3.0 |
| Kawir Adrasteia | 3.5 |
| Poppy I Disagree | 2.5 |
| Is it weird that I'm more than just on board with this? |
| Moongates Guardian The Last Ship | 2.5 |
| Infernal Conjuration Infernale Metallum Mortis | 3.5 |
| Extirpation A Damnation's Stairway to the Altar of Failure | 3.0 |
| Drave Terroir | 3.0 |
| Usnea Portals Into Futility | 3.0 |
| Path of Desolation Monument For The Restless | 3.0 |
| Shabti Trembling and Shorn | 2.5 |
| Der Rote Milan Moritat | 3.0 |
| Acathexis Acathexis | 3.5 |
| Novarupta Disillusioned Fire | 3.0 |
| Frosthelm Pyrrhic | 2.5 |
| Raventale Morphine Dead Gardens | 3.5 |
| Peste Noire La Chaise-Dyable | 3.0 |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire | 3.0 |
| Peste Noire Peste Noire - Split - Peste Noire | 1.5 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) VII: Fodd Forlorare | 3.0 |
| Lifelover Konkurs | 3.0 |
| Lifelover Sjukdom | 2.5 |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am | 2.5 |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death | 3.0 |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt | 3.5 |
| Omega Massif Karpatia | 3.5 |
| A Circle Of Crows A Circle Of Crows (DEMO) | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 2.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.0 |
| Kvelgeyst Alkahest | 3.0 |
| Monument (UK) Hellhound | 3.0 |
| Moongates Guardian Cold Waters Of Anduin | 3.0 |
| Vile Crone Apostle | 3.5 |
| Bosque Cleansing | 2.0 |
| Karfagen Birds of Passage | 4.0 |
| Goats Of Doom Tie on Hänen Omilleen | 3.5 |
| Frigoris ...in Stille | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Circle | 3.5 |
| Worth a listen but overall it's a little better than passable. |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 3.5 |
| Fetid Steeping Corporeal Mess | 3.0 |
| Tod Huetet Uebel Nomen Nescio | 2.0 |
| Leprous Malina | 3.5 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 3.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... | 1.0 |
| Music to listen to...??.. boost your objectivity? |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 3.0 |
| Coilguns Watchwinders | 4.0 |
| Noppslyde Just World | 3.0 |
| Forgjord Ilmestykset | 3.5 |
| Telumehtar The Well | 3.0 |
| Aornos The Great Scorn | 3.5 |
| Abehrum Ineffable | 3.0 |
| Nero di Marte Immoto | 3.5 |
| Fans of Derivae will have a lot to look forward to in Nero's latest effort. That bass presence is particularly dominant. I have some gripes with the vocals, but I'm generally getting too caught up in the instrumental work to nail down why that is. |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 3.5 |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse | 4.0 |
| My god this is borderline gorgeous. Lush, lacey tones of gazey haunting melancholia. I want to lay it that atmosphere. |
| Dark Watcher Dark Watcher | 3.5 |
| Nordjevel Necrogenesis | 2.5 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension | 4.0 |
| This is as good as anything else they've released in their career. That's enough said honestly. |
| Wormhole The Weakest Among Us | 2.0 |
| If you want to bree-bree and wham-bam-slam all year long than this is probably for you. If you have more than 3 brain cells rubbing against each other than you'll need to look elsewhere. |
| Vaeok Vaeok | 3.0 |
| Vaeok's self-titled effort is a succinct, if safe display of atmospheric black metal forged from the fires of primal, raw blackened metal with many a ritualistic tendency. |
| Aronious Perspicacity | 3.0 |
| Despite a tendency to be slightly long winded, Perspicacity is an appropriate start to The Artisan Era's 2020 exports. A few production misgivings are generally forgiven by a decent atmosphere and otherwise strong musicianship. |
| Ghost Spirit Hourglass | 3.0 |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte | 3.0 |
| Cognizance Malignant Dominion | 3.0 |
| Avathar Bûrgulu kû-ghâra | 3.0 |
| Hashshashin Badakhshan | 4.0 |
| Foredoomed Chaos and Beauty | 3.0 |
| Enisum Moth's Illusion | 3.0 |
| Not as well-executed as some of this year's more formidable releases but still solid folk-sy atmospheric black metal in the vein of Falls Of Rauros, Bardd et al. |
| Officium Triste The Death of Gaia | 2.5 |
| Kampfar Ofidians manifest | 4.0 |
| Erebos (AUT) Heretic | 3.5 |
| Gorgon (FRA2) Elegy | 3.0 |
| Rifftera Across The Acheron | 2.5 |
| Prostitute Disfigurement Prostitute Disfigurement | 3.0 |
| Pulchra Morte Divina Autem et Aniles | 3.5 |
| Panzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter I: War, Horrid War | 3.0 |
| Gomorrah (CAN) Gomorrah | 3.0 |
| Cara Neir Part III / Part IV | 3.5 |
| Cartographs Wilt and Blossom | 3.0 |
| Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments | 2.5 |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent | 3.0 |
| As Dark As You As Dark As You | 3.5 |
| Arkona (PL) Lunaris | 3.0 |
| Arkona (PL) Age Of Capricorn | 3.5 |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure | 3.5 |
| Crest of Darkness The God of Flesh | 3.0 |
| Crest of Darkness Welcome the Dead | 3.0 |
| Moloken Rural | 3.5 |
| Moloken All is Left to See | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 2.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.5 |
| Illnath 4 Shades of Me | 2.0 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 4.0 |
| Dekadent Veritas | 3.5 |
| Dekadent The Nemean Ordeal | 3.5 |
| Gire Gire | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Sgùrr | 3.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Meta | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.0 |
| Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget Tău | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget ZI | 3.5 |
| Nortt Doden... | 2.5 |
| Nortt Nattetale | 3.0 |
| Nortt Hedengang | 3.0 |
| Nortt graven | 2.5 |
| Nortt Gudsforladt | 3.0 |
| Nortt Ligfaerd | 3.5 |
| Nortt Galgenfrist | 3.5 |
| Nortt Endeligt | 3.0 |
| Perihelion (USA-MD) Infinite Decay | 2.0 |
| Perihelion (HU) Agg | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 3.0 |
| Deafheavencore |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.0 |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 2.0 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.0 |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.5 |
| Dismember Dismember | 3.0 |
| Rottrevore Iniquitous | 3.5 |
| Pyrexia Feast of Iniquity | 3.0 |
| Pyrexia Unholy Requiem | 2.0 |
| Incantation Profane Nexus | 2.5 |
| Monstrosity Rise to Power | 2.5 |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Monstrosity The Passage of Existence | 3.0 |
| Malevolent Creation Invidious Dominion | 2.0 |
| Malevolent Creation Dead Man's Path | 2.5 |
| Master The Human Machine | 2.5 |
| Master The New Elite | 3.0 |
| Master Vindictive Miscreant | 3.0 |
| Master An Epiphany Of Hate | 2.5 |
| Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves | 3.0 |
| Asphyx On The Wings of Inferno | 3.0 |
| Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way | 3.0 |
| Asphyx Deathhammer | 3.0 |
| Asphyx Incoming Death | 3.0 |
| Obituary World Demise | 3.0 |
| Obituary The End Complete | 4.0 |
| Obituary Back from the Dead | 2.5 |
| Obituary Frozen in Time | 3.0 |
| Obituary Xecutioner's Return | 2.0 |
| Obituary Darkest Day | 2.0 |
| Obituary Obituary | 2.5 |
| Portal (Cynic) Portal | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Suldusk Lunar Falls | 3.5 |
| Moonknight Discernment | 3.0 |
| Once Upon A Winter Pain and Other Pleasures | 3.5 |
| Vorna Sateet palata saavat | 3.0 |
| Aera (GER, Black Metal) Schein | 3.5 |
| Rogga Johansson Entrance to the Otherwhere | 3.0 |
| King (AUS) Coldest of Cold | 3.0 |
| Apoxupon How the Garden Grows | 3.5 |
| Myrkgrav Takk og Farvel; Tida er Blitt ei Annen | 3.5 |
| Windir Soknardalr | 4.0 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.0 |
| Windir 1184 | 4.0 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn | 3.5 |
| Solstafir Otta | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Urd | 3.0 |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice | 3.5 |
| Borknagar True North | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Alpha Serpentis | 3.0 |
| So Hideous To Clasp a Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Last Poem/First Light | 3.5 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 3.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage Further Still | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.0 |
| A Secret Revealed Sacrifices | 3.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Epos | 3.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Atrophy | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass III | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass IIII | 3.5 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.0 |
| Celeste Animale(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 3.5 |
| Celeste Infidele(s) | 3.0 |
| Hexis Tando Ashanti | 2.5 |
| Monarque Jusqu'à la Mort | 3.0 |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene | 2.5 |
| Smoulder Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring | 3.0 |
| GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem | 3.0 |
| Together to the Stars An Oblivion Above | 3.0 |
| Laster Het wassen oog | 3.0 |
| Oak (PT) Lone | 4.0 |
| Sorathian Dawn Sun of the Deep | 3.0 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile | 4.0 |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber | 4.0 |
| Here Comes the Kraken H.C.T.K. | 1.5 |
| Here Comes The Kraken...here comes an objectivity boost. |
| Frostmoon Eclipse Worse Weather to Come | 3.0 |
| Constellatia The Language of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Funereal Presence Achatius | 3.5 |
| Verwoed De Val | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Putrefaction At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm | 3.5 |
| Cenotaphe Empyrée | 3.0 |
| Black Sites Exile | 3.0 |
| Fen The Dead Light | 3.5 |
| Fen has streamlined most of their sound to great affect, but they lose some of the momentum into the more groove based/faster sections - killing the climb of their moody crescendo(s). |
| Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation | 3.0 |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings | 3.0 |
| Septa Bitten by the Serpent of the Kingdom of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa | 3.5 |
| Teeth (USA-CA) The Curse of Entropy | 4.0 |
| Sigh In Somniphobia | 3.5 |
| Sigh Graveward | 3.0 |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend | 3.0 |
| Forest of Tygers I Will Die of Violence | 3.5 |
| Wandar Zyklus | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Light of September | 3.5 |
| Issues Beautiful Oblivion | 2.0 |
| Ashen Crown Obsolescence | 2.5 |
| Facade The Eternal Dance | 2.5 |
| Mesmur Terrene | 3.5 |
| Sarke Gastwerso | 3.5 |
| Jinjer Macro | 2.0 |
| Voarm Voarm | 3.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 4.0 |
| 'Death Atlas' is as enjoyable as a primal wagyu rib-eye, wrapped in prosciutto, pre-born veal and basted in duck fat. Probably with a side of baby's tears. |
| Leonard Cohen Thanks for the Dance | 3.5 |
| Disillusion The Liberation | 1.5 |
| Worsen Cursed to Witness Life | 3.0 |
| Unfathomable Ruination Enraged & Unbound | 3.0 |
| Bestial Invasion Monomania | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom Nephilim Grove | 3.0 |
| Wonder what it takes to have a taste as purely superior as BADNEW'S. Guess I better start 1ing all the album's I know nothing about. |
| Skyblood Skyblood | 4.0 |
| Epitaphe I | 3.5 |
| Firelink The Inveterate Fire | 3.0 |
| Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise | 3.0 |
| Coffins The Fleshland | 3.0 |
| Monolithe OKTA KHORA | 4.0 |
| Schammasch Hearts of No Light | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis | 4.0 |
| Vastum Orificial Purge | 3.0 |
| Brume (USA-CA) Rabbits | 4.0 |
| Despised Icon Purgatory | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light | 2.5 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.0 |
| Abigail Williams Becoming | 3.0 |
| Officium Triste Mors Viri | 3.5 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.0 |
| Ade Rise of the Empire | 3.0 |
| The Drowning The Radiant Dark | 3.5 |
| Rorcal Muladona | 4.0 |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. | 3.5 |
| Lord Mantis Universal Death Church | 3.5 |
| Blood Stain Child Amateras | 2.0 |
| Gates to the Morning Return To Earth | 2.5 |
| Rosetta Terra Sola | 3.5 |
| Woorms Slake | 2.5 |
| Plateau Sigma Symbols - The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below | 3.5 |
| Konkhra Alpha And The Omega | 3.0 |
| Dismemberment Arc of Ancients | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 3.0 |
| Lacus Somniorum Tideshaper | 3.5 |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 3.5 |
| Wodensthrone Curse | 3.5 |
| Dawn Ray'd A Thorn, A Blight | 3.0 |
| Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly | 3.0 |
| Dawn Ray'd Behold Sedition Plainsong | 3.0 |
| Arsa Pagan Legend | 3.5 |
| Sidereal Fortress Odissea | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 2.5 |
| Celldweller Into the Void | 2.5 |
| Hideous Divinity Simulacrum | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus | 3.5 |
| Immanifest Macrobial | 3.0 |
| The Flower Kings Banks of Eden | 4.0 |
| Profetus The Sadness Of Time Passing | 4.5 |
| Cloak The Burning Dawn | 2.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 3.5 |
| Ghosts of Glaciers The Greatest Burden | 4.0 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 2.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 4.0 |
| Nile At The Gate of Sethu | 2.5 |
| Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed | 2.5 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 3.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse Nug So Vile | 2.5 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 2.0 |
| B.B. King Lucille | 5.0 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 4.5 |
| Earth and Pillars Earth II | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Daemon | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Misotheism | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal | 3.5 |
| Attila Villain | 1.0 |
| Merda Mundi Hatred | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 2.5 |
| The Sea of Tragic Beats. Not really - but I couldn't help myself. |
| Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N. | 2.0 |
| Bad Wolves enters N.a.t.i.o.n. full Nickelback, choruses and all.............. |
| Botanist Ecosystem | 3.5 |
| Botanist Collective: The Shape of He to Come | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 2.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Naiv | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque prove again to be the masters of whimsical experimental nuance disguised as metal. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.0 |
| The ritual is over, and The Black Dahlia Murder have fallen on their faces. Everblack is a stagnant, going nowhere album, filled to the utmost brim with recycled mediocrity. |
| Seizures Reverie of the Revolving Diamond | 3.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Gidim | 1.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 3.5 |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations | 3.0 |
| Entrails (SWE) Obliteration | 2.5 |
| Entrails (SWE) Raging Death | 3.0 |
| Earth Full Upon Her Burning Lips | 3.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 4.0 |
| Mefitis Emberdawn | 3.0 |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 2.5 |
| Teitanblood The Baneful Choir | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima | 2.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism | 4.0 |
| Black Passage The Veil | 2.5 |
| Uneven Structure Paragon | 2.0 |
| Vukari Aevum | 3.5 |
| Frigoris Nur Ein Moment... | 3.0 |
| Vulvodynia Mob Justice | 2.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 1.5 |
| Carnifex World War X | 2.5 |
| Ingested Call of the Void | 2.5 |
| A Wake in Providence The Blvck Sun || The Blood Moon | 2.0 |
| Beyond Deviation Dark Passenger | 2.0 |
| Mental Cruelty Inferis | 1.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.0 |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous | 2.0 |
| Vin De Mia Trix Palimpsests | 3.5 |
| Vin De Mia Trix Once Hidden from Sight | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Tongue A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time | 4.0 |
| Ereb Altor Järtecken | 3.0 |
| Vehemence (FRA) Par le sang versé | 3.0 |
| L'Acephale L’Acephale | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo | 3.5 |
| In the Woods... Pure | 3.0 |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day | 3.0 |
| Exhumed Horror | 2.5 |
| Eggs of Gomorrh Outpregnate | 3.0 |
| Kadavar (DE) For the Dead Travel Fast | 3.0 |
| Wyrd Kalivägi | 2.5 |
| Wyrd Kammen | 3.0 |
| Wyrd Death of the Sun | 3.0 |
| Mael Mordha Cluain Tarbh | 3.0 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha | 3.5 |
| Mael Mordha Manannán | 3.5 |
| Mael Mordha Damned When Dead | 3.5 |
| Havukruunu Havulinnaan | 3.0 |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi | 3.5 |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths | 4.0 |
| Eternal Storm Come the Tide | 3.5 |
| Aspherium The Embers of Eternity | 2.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla | 2.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En | 2.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 2.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 2.5 |
| Planet Of Zeus Faith in Physics | 2.0 |
| Planet Of Zeus Vigilante | 3.0 |
| Those Darn Gnomes Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.0 |
| Profanatica Rotting Incarnation of God | 3.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.7 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation | 2.0 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 3.5 |
| Creeping Death Wretched Illusions | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.0 |
| Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze Offerings of Flesh and Gold | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms | 2.5 |
| This lacks basic memorability. Stellar production, incredible musicianship - but it bleeds together into one fucking mess. This is ripe for easy over rating, but there's strictly no staying power. |
| Bagg Tussa баґґтусса | 2.5 |
| Unfurl The Waking Void | 4.0 |
| Cadaveric Fumes Dimensions Obscure | 3.5 |
| Cadaveric Fumes/Demonic Oath Entwined in Sepulchral Darkness | 3.0 |
| Wombbath Downfall Rising | 2.5 |
| Wombbath The Great Desolation | 3.0 |
| Gorement The Ending Quest | 3.5 |
| Necrophobic Womb of Lilithu | 2.5 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 3.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 3.0 |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn | 2.5 |
| 1349 Revelations of the Black Flame | 2.0 |
| 1349 Demonoir | 3.0 |
| 1349 The Infernal Pathway | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis | 2.0 |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical | 2.5 |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero | 2.5 |
| Satyricon Volcano | 3.0 |
| Satyricon Deep Calleth Upon Deep | 2.0 |
| Gehenna Murder | 2.0 |
| Gehenna WW | 2.5 |
| Gehenna Unravel | 2.0 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 2.5 |
| Annorkoth The Last Days | 3.5 |
| Coldworld Interludium | 2.5 |
| Coldworld Toteninsel | 2.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Elixir of Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Zyklus | 3.0 |
| Lunar Aurora Ars Moriendi | 3.0 |
| Lunar Aurora Mond | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte | 4.0 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit | 3.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars | 2.5 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.0 |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short | 2.5 |
| Winterfylleth Rising Of The Winter Full Moon | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Ghost Of Heritage | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody of Triumph | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity | 3.5 |
| Winterfylleth The Dark Hereafter | 3.5 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 3.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.0 |
| Fen Dustwalker | 3.5 |
| Fen Carrion Skies | 3.0 |
| Fen Winter | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 3.0 |
| Unru Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts | 3.0 |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants | 3.0 |
| Sun Worship Pale Dawn | 3.0 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 4.0 |
| Fell Voices Untitled | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate | 3.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness | 2.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection | 1.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days | 1.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City | 1.5 |
| Hellyeah Welcome Home | 1.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 3.0 |
| Critical Defiance Misconception | 3.0 |
| Serpent Column Mirror In Darkness | 3.5 |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies | 3.0 |
| Profetus As All Seasons Die | 4.0 |
| Profetus ...to Open the Passages in Dusk | 3.0 |
| Profetus Coronation of the Black Sun | 4.0 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Herald of Sorrow | 4.0 |
| White Ward Love Exchange Failure | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 3.5 |
| Baest Venenum | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 1.5 |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light | 3.0 |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia | 3.5 |
| Slow (BE) VI – Dantalion | 4.0 |
| Dantalion is compelling, captivating, emotional and even renewing -- essential suffocating funeral doom for the downcast and dejected-- Presskit isn't exactly wrong on this.r |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Conjuring The Dead | 2.5 |
| Belphegor Totenritual | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt | 3.0 |
| 1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao | 3.0 |
| Immortal All Shall Fall | 3.0 |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods | 3.0 |
| Horna Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa | 3.5 |
| Horna Hengen tulet | 2.5 |
| Sargeist Unbound | 3.0 |
| Uada Devoid of Light | 3.5 |
| Mgla Groza | 3.5 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 3.5 |
| Mgla Age of Excuse | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Unending | 1.5 |
| P.O.D. Circles | 1.0 |
| Nonpoint Recoil | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Outlaws ‘til the End: Vol. 1 | 1.5 |
| Lamb of God The Duke | 2.5 |
| God Forbid Reject the Sickness | 2.0 |
| God Forbid Equilibrium | 3.0 |
| God Forbid Determination | 2.5 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 3.5 |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason | 3.5 |
| A highlight of the God Forbid collection, A true level of metal energy is displayed on 'IV'. A spectacular listen for fans of true metal, thrash, metalcore and heavy metal. Also the guitar work should be noted for players of the instrument, both rhythm and lead work. |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 2.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer | 2.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined | 3.0 |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence | 2.5 |
| The Agonist Five | 1.5 |
| The Agonist Orphans | 1.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 4.0 |
| King Diamond Give Me Your Soul...Please | 3.0 |
| King Diamond Abigail | 4.0 |
| King Diamond Abigail II: The Revenge | 2.5 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.0 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.0 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Isa | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Falkenbach Tiurida | 2.5 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 3.5 |
| Celtic Frost Cold Lake | 1.5 |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium | 3.0 |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion | 3.5 |
| Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis | 1.5 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 3.0 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.0 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.0 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 4.0 |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods | 3.5 |
| Bathory Requiem | 2.0 |
| Bathory Octagon | 1.0 |
| Bathory Blood on Ice | 2.0 |
| Bathory Destroyer of Worlds | 1.5 |
| Bathory Nordland I | 3.5 |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil | 3.5 |
| Bathory Nordland II | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.0 |
| Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Tervaskanto | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas | 3.0 |
| Korpiklaani Karkelo | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Ukon Wacka | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Manala | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Noita | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Kulkija | 2.5 |
| Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire | 3.0 |
| AngelMaker Decay | 2.5 |
| AngelMaker Dissentient | 3.0 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.0 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 3.0 |
| Kauan Tietäjän Laulu | 3.0 |
| Kauan Kuu.. | 3.0 |
| Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception | 2.5 |
| Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 3.5 |
| Loss Despond | 3.0 |
| Loss Horizonless | 3.5 |
| Inverloch Distance | Collapsed | 4.0 |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral | 4.0 |
| Black Wreath A Pyre Of Lost Dreams | 4.0 |
| Passages are strong to match the output of the best of the genre, however match doesn't outrank the other staples of the doom genre. Promising, may grow over time. |
| Worship Dooom | 4.0 |
| Worship Terranean Wake | 3.5 |
| Worship Dusk of Legion, Morning of One | 3.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation | 3.5 |
| Mournful Congregation The June Frost | 3.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Book of Kings | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Stormcrowfleet | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Lead and Aether | 4.0 |
| Skepticism Farmakon | 3.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Ordeal | 3.5 |
| Evoken Shades of Night Descending | 3.0 |
| Evoken Quietus | 3.5 |
| Slow (BE) II - Deeper in the Space, Higher In... | 3.5 |
| Slow (BE) IV - Mythologiæ | 3.5 |
| Essence of Datum Spellcrying Machine | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill | 4.0 |
| Keys of Orthanc A Battle in the Dark Lands of the Eye... | 3.0 |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia | 4.0 |
| Vitriol (USA) To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice | 3.0 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 2.5 |
| Korn The Nothing | 1.0 |
| Apologies Northlane. It turns out Alien isn't in fact the worst mainstream metal release of 2019. |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth | 2.0 |
| Black Tongue called... they want their shitty guitar tone back. |
| Foscor Els Sepulcres Blancs | 3.0 |
| Weeping Sores False Confession | 4.0 |
| Witch Vomit Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave | 3.0 |
| Coffin Rot A Monument To The Dead | 3.5 |
| Mizmor Cairn | 4.0 |
| Nemesea White Flag | 1.5 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Well this is magnificent. The Silent Man is but a tease boys and girls. |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence | 4.5 |
| 2019 is quickly turning into one of those years where we question if those years to follow will ever live up to it. Esoteric have delivered on another doom masterstroke and in a year where Eye Of Solitude call it quits, 'A Pyrrhic Existence' stands tall - reaffirming the genre's vitality. |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Probably one of Opeth's easier to digest albums post-Heritage era and to the same resolve their heaviest as far as their dad-meets-prog-rock journey goes. Opeth are now comfortable, completely. |
| The Ritual Aura Velothi | 1.5 |
| Actus Reus Vengeance | 1.0 |
| It's at this point I really hope the entire of smoking roses' soundoff is complete satire. This is trash even Oscar would reject |
| Toadeater Codex | 3.5 |
| Hope Drone Void Lustre | 4.0 |
| Ashbringer Absolution | 4.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 2.5 |
| Hope Drone Cloak of Ash | 3.0 |
| Dead Feathers All is Lost | 2.0 |
| Nails I Don't Want to Know You | 3.0 |
| Gorezone Implexaeon | 3.0 |
| pretty sure I heard Megatron mention Hogwarts somewhere in here... |
| Sacred Reich Awakening | 3.0 |
| Oxx The Skeleton is Just a Coat Hanger... | 3.5 |
| Sparrows Failed Gods | 3.5 |
| WRVTH No Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame | 1.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Devourment Obscene Majesty | 3.0 |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 3.5 |
| Sleep Terror Abreaction | 1.5 |
| It's a shame that this is so bipolar. Nothing here comes together. Sleep Terror has multi personality disorders that no medicine will fix no matter. |
| Soilwork Underworld | 3.0 |
| Sadness Circle of Veins | 3.5 |
| Sadness I want to be there | 3.5 |
| DAYUM Ghost Of Sparta | 2.0 |
| Bleak Flesh ... And Save Us From Silence | 3.0 |
| Freedom of Fear Nocturnal Gates | 3.5 |
| Finsterforst Zerfall | 3.5 |
| Bastard Grave Diorama Of Human Suffering | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 2.8 |
| Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.0 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal | 2.0 |
| Convictions Hope for the Broken | 1.5 |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void | 3.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.6 |
| Warforged I: Voice | 3.5 |
| Fawn Limbs Harm Remissions | 2.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 1.5 |
| Noctambulist Atmospheres of Desolation | 3.0 |
| Clouds Collide They Don't Sleep Anymore | 3.5 |
| Catafalque Catafalque | 3.0 |
| Alarmist Sequesterer | 4.0 |
| Wounds of Recollection You Were A Garden of Empyrean Light | 3.0 |
| Genetic Disease Eternal Emptiness | 3.0 |
| Descarnado Ente | 2.5 |
| Bleakhaus Northwest Passage | 3.0 |
| Bleakhaus Falling Apart | 3.0 |
| Esoctrilihum The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods | 4.0 |
| Esoctrilihum Pandaemorthium | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Mystic Echo From a Funeral Dimension | 3.5 |
| Esoctrilihum Inhüma | 3.5 |
| Victims of Contagion Lamentations Of The Flesh Bound | 3.5 |
| Artides The Rise and Fall of ... | 2.5 |
| Caecus A Parting Current | 3.5 |
| Orphalis The Approaching Darkness | 3.0 |
| Blackhelm Dark Clouds of the Inferno | 3.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling | 4.0 |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie | 4.0 |
| Wormwood Nattarvet | 2.5 |
| Stille Volk Milharis | 3.0 |
| Fields Of Elysium In Ancient Contemplation | 2.5 |
| Cable Take the Stairs to Hell | 2.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 1.0 |
| Wormed Metaportal | 2.5 |
| Calico Jack Calico Jack | 3.0 |
| Gonna need to find and or locate th' Rum if we're going to enjoy ourselves here. Savvy? |
| False Untitled | 3.5 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 3.5 |
| Sharks In Your Mouth Sacrilegious | 1.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 5.0 |
| Valis Ablaze Render | 2.5 |
| Hollow Haze Between Wild Landscapes and Deep Blue Seas | 3.0 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 4.0 |
| Disentomb The Decaying Light | 3.5 |
| False Portent | 4.0 |
| Of Virtue What Defines You | 1.5 |
| Wishfield Wishfield | 4.0 |
| Axioma Crown | 4.0 |
| Ceremony Of Silence Oútis | 3.5 |
| Organectomy Existential Disconnect | 3.0 |
| Herrschaft Le Festin Du Lion | 3.5 |
| Howling Sycamore Seven Pathways To Annihilation | 3.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk | 4.0 |
| Early tracks tell me this is going to be a right royal jam. |
| Atlas Entity Beneath the Cosmic Silence | 3.0 |
| Nucleus (USA-IL) Entity | 4.0 |
| Hate Auric Gates of Veles | 3.5 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 3.0 |
| Latitudes Part Island | 3.0 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 4.0 |
| Devil Master Satan Spits On Children Of Light | 3.5 |
| Thor Christmas In Valhalla | 2.0 |
| Chernaa Empyrean Fire | 4.5 |
| Enthroned Cold Black Suns | 3.5 |
| Flub Flub | 2.0 |
| Drowse Cold Air | 3.5 |
| Drowse Light Mirror | 3.5 |
| Vader Thy Messenger | 3.0 |
| Enforcer Zenith | 2.5 |
| Beheaded Only Death Can Save You | 3.5 |
| Appalachian Winter Winter Always Returns | 3.0 |
| Advent Sorrow As All Light Leaves Her | 4.0 |
| Sidious Revealed in Profane Splendour | 4.0 |
| Immolation Atonement | 3.5 |
| Beorn's Hall Estuary | 3.0 |
| Beorn's Hall In His Granite Realm | 3.0 |
| Triumvir Foul Urine of Abomination | 3.5 |
| Mesarthim Ghost Condensate | 3.5 |
| Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Disguise | 1.0 |
| Akrotheism Law of Seven Deaths | 3.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy World Of Sludge | 1.5 |
| Darkthrone Old Star | 4.0 |
| Abbath Abbath | 3.5 |
| Abbath Outstrider | 3.5 |
| Predictably solid as should be expected from one of the pioneering faces of black metal. At its core is an essential offering of what the man has offered listeners for eons, mainstay of traditional methods. Come for the face paint, stay for the music. |
| Vale of Pnath Accursed | 3.5 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 4.0 |
| Krypts Cadaver Circulation | 4.0 |
| Origin Abiogenesis - A Coming into Existence | 1.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Mettavolution | 3.5 |
| Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited | 3.0 |
| About the safest thing Gaahl has ever slapped his name on. Barely above average, listen to this when you run out of everything that's better. |
| Nocturnus AD Paradox | 3.5 |
| Paladin (USA) Ascension | 2.5 |
| Kull Exile | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia | 4.5 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 2.0 |
| Grand Magus Wolf God | 3.0 |
| Glassing Spotted Horse | 4.0 |
| Vale (USA-CA-2) Burden of Sight | 4.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 4.0 |
| Coast Skim | 3.5 |
| More modern jazz greatness from these polyrhythmic swank noodles. Definitely worth more than the casual listen. |
| A Novelist Folie | 4.0 |
| Valborg Zentrum | 4.0 |
| Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer | 3.0 |
| Father Befouled Holy Rotten Blood | 3.5 |
| Inanimate Existence Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Goregäng Neon Graves | 3.5 |
| Eremit Carrier of Weight | 3.0 |
| Vous Autres Champ du Sang | 4.0 |
| Cellar Darling The Spell | 4.0 |
| Horcrux Loss & Grief | 2.5 |
| Encoffination We Proclaim Your Death O' Lord | 3.5 |
| Folian Ache Pillars | 3.5 |
| Pythia The Solace of Ancient Earth | 2.5 |
| Eluveitie Ategnatos | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion | 3.0 |
| Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Silent Man | 3.5 |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal | 4.0 |
| Gnaw Their Tongues An Eternity Of Suffering, An Eternity Of Pain | 4.0 |
| Stellar Master Elite Hologram Temple | 3.0 |
| The Lumberjack Feedback Mere Mortals | 4.0 |
| Red Moon Architect Kuura | 4.0 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 1.5 |
| Possessed Revelations of Oblivion | 2.0 |
| Orpheus Omega Wear Your Sins | 3.0 |
| Dreadnought Emergence | 3.5 |
| Skaldic Curse Devourer | 3.5 |
| Skaldic Curse World Suicide Machine | 2.5 |
| Ringworm Death Becomes My Voice | 3.0 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.0 |
| Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| Shokran Ethereal | 2.5 |
| Wounds (USA-IL) Light Eater | 3.0 |
| Helms Alee Noctiluca | 2.0 |
| NONE Damp Chill of Life | 4.0 |
| Vaura Sables | 1.5 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 2.9 |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 3.0 |
| Numenorean Adore | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sulphur English | 4.0 |
| Ataraxie Résignés | 4.0 |
| I Prevail TRAUMA | 1.5 |
| Venom Prison Samsara | 4.0 |
| SkeleToon They Never Say Die | 2.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Lost Empyrean | 4.0 |
| Wake Of The Blade The Flesh Ephemeral | 3.5 |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation | 3.0 |
| The Royal Deathwatch | 3.0 |
| It feels good to be listening to 2019 metalcore that doesn't completely blow big camel ring holes. |
| Hannes Grossmann Apophenia | 3.5 |
| Sinmara Hvísl Stjarnanna | 4.0 |
| Saver They Came with Sunlight | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Crescendo of Dusk | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter War | 1.5 |
| Vaiya Remnant Light | 4.0 |
| Buckcherry Warpaint | 1.0 |
| Pond (AUS) Tasmania | 3.0 |
| Any Given Day Everlasting | 1.5 |
| Tyr Hel | 3.5 |
| Equipoise Demiurgus | 2.5 |
| Ni Pantophobie | 3.5 |
| Mark Morton Anesthetic | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain | 3.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 1.5 |
| The Gloaming The Gloaming 3 | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Grievous | 3.5 |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain | 4.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Echoes | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.0 |
| Candlemass The Door To Doom | 2.5 |
| Vanum Ageless Fire | 3.5 |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics | 3.0 |
| Avantasia Moonglow | 3.5 |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude | 4.0 |
| Seer Vol. 6 | 3.0 |
| Barshasketh Barshasketh | 3.5 |
| Target (CHL) Deep Water Flames | 3.5 |
| Somn The All-Devouring | 3.0 |
| Elkhsha Farther Giants | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Covered In Blood | 2.0 |
| band disputes intellectual copyright, releases an album full of other band?s songs... These guys should stick to stealing photographs. |
| Saor Forgotten Paths | 4.0 |
| Nebula Orionis Starthrone | 2.0 |
| Ermengrond Men amongst wolves | 3.5 |
| Helium Horse Fly Hollowed | 3.5 |
| Ossuarium Living Tomb | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation Resist | 3.0 |
| Trollfest Norwegian Fairytales | 3.5 |
| Soen Lotus | 4.0 |
| A Swarm of the Sun The Woods | 4.0 |
| Altarage The Approaching Roar | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 3.5 |
| Desecravity Anathema | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 1.5 |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force | 4.0 |
| A Pale Horse Named Death And Hell Will Follow Me | 3.5 |
| A Pale Horse Named Death When The World Becomes Undone | 1.5 |
| Malevolent Creation The 13th Beast | 2.0 |
| Black Tide Chasing Shadows | 1.5 |
| Black Tide Light From Above | 3.0 |
| Black Tide Post Mortem | 2.5 |
| Legion of the Damned Slaves of the Shadow Realm | 1.5 |
| Krallice Wolf | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation | 2.0 |
| Born Of Osiris? most coherent albums to date. While it?s clear they yearn for the lofty technicality they can?t quite reach the more focused, chug a long a-tonal riffage allows them to be a better than what they?ve offered previously. Too bad it?s mediocre, samey and completely forgettable. |
| Decayos Apterous | 3.0 |
| Unmasked Behind the Mask | 1.5 |
| Uluru Acrophilia | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Sower of Wind | 2.5 |
| Festerday Iihtallan | 2.5 |
| Oblivion's Kiss The Swallow and the Blue Bird | 1.0 |
| Mono Nowhere Now Here | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.0 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 3.5 |
| Ulthar Cosmovore | 3.5 |
| Cerebrum Iridium | 3.0 |
| Blood Feast Chopped, Sliced And Diced | 3.0 |
| Taphos Come Ethereal Somberness | 3.5 |
| Clouds (INT) Dor | 4.0 |
| Drowning Pool Hellelujah | 1.5 |
| Drowning Pool Resilience | 1.0 |
| Drowning Pool Desensitized | 1.0 |
| Elderwind The Colder The Night | 3.0 |
| Anachronism Orogeny | 3.5 |
| Marsh Dweller Wanderer | 4.5 |
| Sul ad Astral Oasis | 4.5 |
| Glacial Tomb Glacial Tomb | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Black Reign | 1.5 |
| Unearth Extinction(s) | 1.5 |
| Turns out, I must actually have a dick in my ear... rit couldn?t be the fact that this is one dimensional, bland and backwards as fuck... |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 3.5 |
| Unearth The March | 3.5 |
| Evoken Hypnagogia | 4.0 |
| Halestorm Vicious | 2.5 |
| Tides of Man Every Nothing | 2.5 |
| Sigh Heir to Despair | 4.0 |
| Ghastly (FIN) Death Velour | 3.5 |
| Aevangelist Matricide in the Temple of Omega | 3.5 |
| Aevangelist Heralds of Nightmare Descending | 3.0 |
| Aevangelist Veneration of Profane Antiquity | 3.0 |
| Aevangelist Enthrall to the Void of Bliss | 3.5 |
| Aevangelist Writhes in the Murk | 3.5 |
| Aevangelist Omen Ex Simulacra | 4.0 |
| Ashes of Ares Well of Souls | 2.0 |
| Spectral Wound Infernal Decadence | 3.5 |
| Basalte Vertige | 3.5 |
| Moonshade Sun Dethroned | 4.0 |
| Sun Dethroned manages to Amon Amarth hard. Infectiously catchy and misses most of the cheesiness that would otherwise plague an album like this. |
| All That Remains Victim of the New Disease | 2.5 |
| The real question here is why the fuck haven?t All That Remains released these songs anytime in the last decade? Apart from ?Everything?s Wrong?, ?Fuck You? and ?Wasteland? are the most All That Remains-ish songs since The Fall Of Ideals. God-damn. |
| Noise Trail Immersion Symbology of Shelter | 3.8 |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win | 2.0 |
| All That Remains Madness | 1.0 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.0 |
| Exit Ten Remember The Day | 3.5 |
| Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns | 3.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Arsis Visitant | 2.5 |
| Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur | 3.0 |
| Funeral Tears The Only Way Out | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Fluxion | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.5 |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 1.5 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 2.5 |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Post-Apocalypto | 1.5 |
| I actually came this close to putting a perfect score on this one... well, I guess this will have to do. |
| Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 3.5 |
| Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes | 2.0 |
| Into Eternity The Sirens | 2.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vacuum | 4.0 |
| Entropia continues to do no wrong. This is one Vacuum I don?t mind getting stuck into. |
| Entropia (PL) Ufonaut | 4.0 |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| Serocs The Next | 3.5 |
| Westfield Massacre Salvation | 1.0 |
| How did these guys not see that kicking Vext out would be a bad bad not good idea? 2018 has somehow got that little bit more disappointing. Bland musicianship, rushed uninspired lyricism with a delivery to match. |
| Outre Hollow Earth | 3.5 |
| Serocs The Phobos / Deimos Suite | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome II | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.5 |
| Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams | 2.0 |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands | 3.0 |
| Mythic Sunship Upheaval | 2.5 |
| Bongripper Terminal | 3.5 |
| As We Draw Mirages | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Helix | 2.5 |
| Old Tower Drachenblut | 3.0 |
| Mycelia Apex | 2.0 |
| Soulfly Conquer | 2.5 |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Ritual | 4.0 |
| The most Soulfly album Soulfly has made in years... |
| Gorod Aethra | 4.0 |
| I can get behind this.... or rather, I?ll let this get behind me. |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.0 |
| Amaranthe The Nexus | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 1.0 |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion | 4.0 |
| The Afterimage Eve | 2.0 |
| Revocation The Outer Ones | 3.0 |
| Revocation Revocation | 3.5 |
| Atreyu In Our Wake | 1.5 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 4.0 |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Long Live | 3.5 |
| Siege of Power Warning Blast | 2.5 |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 2.5 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| Un Sentiment | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 3.5 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| Riverside Wasteland | 3.0 |
| Nonpoint X | 1.5 |
| Voices Frightened | 2.5 |
| Thou Magus | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Misery | 1.5 |
| Soreption Monument of the End | 2.0 |
| And we find ourselves with yet more stale interpretations of technical death metal. |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Missing | 3.5 |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina | 1.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances | 3.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Dictator | 1.5 |
| Obscura Diluvium | 2.0 |
| Possibly ready to be the most underwhelming and overrated death metal release of 2018. This is such a bore fest. |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 2.5 |
| Burn the Priest Legion: XX | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Gravity | 2.0 |
| Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On | 2.0 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura starCross | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back | 3.0 |
| ASG Survive Sunrise | 3.0 |
| Void Of Silence The Sky Over | 4.0 |
| The Sky Over is a beautiful album, albeit with a few minor hiccups. |
| Antlers (DE) Beneath.Below.Behold | 3.5 |
| Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate | 3.5 |
| Ninth Moon Black Amaranthine | 3.5 |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 3.5 |
| Aparia Beyond The Walls Of Man | 3.5 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 2.0 |
| Black Tongue Born Hanged | 2.0 |
| Burial in the Sky Creatio et Hominus | 2.5 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.0 |
| Ritual Necromancy Disinterred Horror | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Meditations | 3.0 |
| YOB Our Raw Heart | 4.0 |
| Thou Inconsolable | 3.5 |
| Joan of Arc 1984 | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Popestar | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Quality song writing just took a back seat. All the basic elements are there including an incredibly unessacary amount of guitar wankery. It's Megadeth at its simplist, and bland form. It works but is far from exciting. 'Endgame' showed something of the right direction, however this strays far from that path. |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.7 |
| Candlemass House Of Doom | 2.5 |
| Dopethrone Transcanadian Anger | 3.0 |
| Glorior Belli The Apostates | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder | 4.0 |
| Witch Mountain Witch Mountain | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All | 3.5 |
| Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth | 1.5 |
| Weedpecker III | 3.0 |
| King Goat Debt Of Aeons | 3.5 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III | 3.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Under The Fragmented Sky | 2.5 |
| Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild | 4.0 |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun | 3.0 |
| Wayfarer World's Blood | 3.0 |
| Goblin Cock Bagged and Boarded | 3.0 |
| Master The Witchhunt | 3.0 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 4.0 |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 1.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None | 1.0 |
| Abraham Look, Here Comes The Dark! | 3.0 |
| Skindred Big Tings | 2.0 |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed | 3.0 |
| Hegemone We Disappear | 3.5 |
| Rise To Remain Bridges Will Burn | 3.5 |
| Rise To Remain City of Vultures | 3.5 |
| Below Red Skies Days Passing By | 3.5 |
| Sevendust All I See Is War | 2.0 |
| More disappointment. Relics of a forgotten past. |
| The Dali Thundering Concept Savages | 3.0 |
| Letters From The Colony Vignette | 3.0 |
| The Sword Used Future | 3.0 |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 2.0 |
| Success Will Write Apocalypse Across... The Grand Partition & The Abrogation Of Idolatry | 3.0 |
| For All Eternity Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Amr | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Arktis. | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Kill the Flaw | 2.5 |
| Bong Thought and Existence | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Eonian | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 1.5 |
| It seems Parkway has lost all their Drive... How does one see any Reverence? |
| Thou The House Primordial | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 2.5 |
| Bong We Are, We Were and We Will Have Been | 3.5 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 4.0 |
| Rise of Avernus Eigengrau | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Westfield Massacre Westfield Massacre | 2.5 |
| Bad Wolves False Flags Volume Two | 1.5 |
| Another supposed "supergroup" happy to pick up piles of shit and massage it into their faces. How the fuck did the likes of Vext, ex-DevilDriver, ex-God Forbid etc manage to churn out mundane shit like this? |
| Bad Wolves False Flags Volume One | 1.5 |
| Eye of Solitude Slaves To Solitude | 4.0 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 3.5 |
| Trautonist Ember | 3.0 |
| Unreqvited Stars Wept to the Sea | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.0 |
| Fits the bill for being okay. If only it didn?t reek of pretentious, self worship. |
| Mol JORD | 3.0 |
| Our Place of Worship is Silence With Inexorable Suffering | 3.0 |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.0 |
| Crone (DE) Godspeed | 3.5 |
| Alestorm No Grave But the Sea | 3.0 |
| Nekrogoblikon Welcome to Bonkers | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.0 |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 2.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin write the same song, over, and over again. |
| Clouds (INT) Destin | 3.5 |
| Orgone (USA-PA) The Joyless Parson | 2.5 |
| Messa Feast for Water | 3.0 |
| Code Error Code Error | 4.0 |
| Slays for days... or ten minutes depending on how you look at it. |
| Crawl/Leviathan CRAWL/LVTHN | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Kannon | 2.5 |
| Autokrator The Obedience to Authority | 2.5 |
| Autokrator Hammer Of The Heretics | 2.0 |
| It might be the band?s intentions; but this is hard to sit through. |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 2.5 |
| Bleed from Within Era | 3.5 |
| Ulvesang The Hunt | 3.5 |
| Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted | 3.5 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Forest of Grey Crypsis | 3.5 |
| Persefone In Lak'Ech | 2.8 |
| Caliban Elements | 2.5 |
| Still beats the shit out of the new Underoath album... |
| Can Bardd Nature Stays Silent | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 2.5 |
| Jasta Jasta | 3.5 |
| Thangorodrim Akallabêth | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Aviations The Light Years | 2.5 |
| Parasite Inc. Time Tears Down | 3.5 |
| Clown Core Toilet | 1.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Anciients Voice of the Void | 3.5 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 4.0 |
| Moongates Guardian Leave The Northern Mountains | 2.5 |
| Bird Violence Seasonal Forests | 3.0 |
| Kalmah Palo | 3.0 |
| Altars Of Grief Iris | 3.0 |
| Heilung LIFA | 3.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Sun | 2.0 |
| Exit Ten Give Me Infinity | 3.5 |
| Primordial The Burning Season | 3.5 |
| Cold Driven The Wicked Side of Me | 3.0 |
| Scrambled Defuncts Hackled In Gore | 3.0 |
| Silent Descent Duplicity | 3.0 |
| Lustmord [ O T H E R ] | 4.0 |
| Aseitas Aseitas | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 3.0 |
| Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps | 3.5 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 3.0 |
| Barren Earth A Complex of Cages | 3.5 |
God dammit 2018 you dirty little prog laced nut cruncher. Stop releasing these high caliber fuck;ing albums. It
would be better however if these records could hold onto the sheer potential they offer, instead of falling short |
| Kamelot The Shadow Theory | 3.0 |
| It’s another soundoff for another Kamelot album. What do you want from me? |
| Light the Torch Revival | 2.5 |
| Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry | 4.0 |
| Elysian Blaze's 2012 record resonates with some of the better acts of the genre. Rung out chords and a raw-'er' mix puch through well. Pick up for some Aust. doom along the lines of Noctis etc. |
| God Dethroned The Toxic Touch | 2.0 |
| God Dethroned The World Ablaze | 2.5 |
| Augury Illusive Golden Age | 2.5 |
| Sleep in Heads On the Air | 3.0 |
| God Dethroned Bloody Blasphemy | 2.5 |
| God Dethroned The Grand Grimoire | 2.5 |
| Will Haven Muerte | 2.0 |
| Wearing Scars A Thousand Words | 3.5 |
| Borealis Purgatory | 2.0 |
| Borealis The Offering | 3.0 |
| Jeden Kmen Mlha | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.5 |
| Appalachian Winter Silence Before the Great Mountain Wind | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter Ghosts of the Mountains | 4.0 |
| The Crown Cobra Speed Venom | 3.0 |
| Bog Wraith Omen | 4.0 |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia | 4.0 |
| Ocean Of Grief Nightfall's Lament | 3.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| NONE NONE | 3.0 |
| NONE Life Has Gone On Long Enough | 3.5 |
| Grift Vilsna andars boning | 3.0 |
| Black Moth Anatomical Venus | 2.5 |
| Trvth Reveal | 3.0 |
| Conjurer Mire | 3.5 |
| Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping | 2.5 |
| Encircling Sea A Forgotten Land | 3.0 |
| Encircling Sea Hearken | 4.0 |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields | 4.0 |
| In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good | 1.5 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.0 |
| On Thorns I Lay Aegean Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Geometria | 4.0 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 3.5 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 4.0 |
| Mythless Patience Hell | 2.0 |
| Forbidden Seasons Promise | 3.5 |
| Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins | 3.0 |
| Expectation may have cast the stone too far out of reach but Exile Amongst The Ruins ensures a solid listen from start to finish. Primordial remain relevant, prominent and consistent moving through typical Primordial song-writing and captivating intensity while keeping sheer accessibility for the band's listeners. |
| Ataraxy Where All Hope Fades | 4.0 |
| Aeonian Sorrow Into The Eternity A Moment We Are | 4.0 |
| Dammit Joe, stop downrating great doom albums man : [ |
| L'Homme Absurde Sleepless | 3.0 |
| The Ogre Dead In The Water | 3.5 |
| Vestals Metaphysical | 3.0 |
| Hashshashin nihsahshsaH | 3.5 |
| Clouds (INT) Departe | 3.5 |
| Clouds (INT) Doliu | 4.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Well Of Dreams | 2.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Hell and Rain | 2.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Flow Of Infinity | 4.0 |
| Hashshashin nihsahshsaH (adj.) | 4.0 |
| This is a new level of quality for this Sydney based group bringing so many elements together in the best possible way. https://hashshashin.bandcamp.com/album/nihsahshsah-adj |
| Instrumental (adj.) Reductio ad Absurdum | 3.5 |
| Coast Coast | 3.5 |
| Blaze Bayley The Redemption of William Black... | 2.5 |
| Drawn and Quartered Feeding Hell's Furnace | 3.0 |
| A quality release, Osdm comes at a price of mediocrity and tgankfully Drawn and Quatered sail quite over the top. Pounding riff lines and constant drum parts come together but unfortunately this album prevents itself from being the ultimate death by sticking to a typical formula. Its not really a negative but its far from a positive. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me AnteMortem | 3.0 |
| Eryn Non Dae. Abandon Of The Self | 3.5 |
| One Step From the Edge Beneath the Surface | 3.0 |
| Kosmogyr Eviternity | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 2.5 |
| Trna Earthcult | 3.0 |
| Voidhanger Dark Days Of The Soul | 3.0 |
| On The Air Sleep In Heads | 3.5 |
On the softer tracks I can hear an almost Alcest aesthetic, varied with a more punched out sound
in the album's more bombastic tracks bordering on Lacuna Coil (honestly not a bad combination).
Not a bad listen at all. Over slightly too quick. |
| Sojourner The Shadowed Road | 4.0 |
| I?m somewhere between listening to an atmospheric black metal album and sitting in a Tolkien novel. This is nice. |
| Glorior Belli Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace Outsider | 2.0 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 4.0 |
| Wife What's Between | 3.0 |
| Ministry AmeriKKKant | 2.0 |
| Naive Altra | 4.0 |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart | 4.5 |
| 2018 needs to stop it with the great albums already. |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy | 4.0 |
| A definite shift in sound from these tyrants of death. The progressive elements are pushing to the fore-front hard. Liquid Anatomy is as lucid and clear as it can be while staying true to their swirling brand of death metal. Production is top-notch and clear without robbing the record of atmosphere. The Cthulhu still runs strong for this HP Lovecraft loving band. |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.0 |
| They told me I could be anything, so I became Slug worship |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.5 |
| Mahr Antelux | 4.0 |
| Facing The Gallows Dead Mindset | 2.0 |
| "It doesn't matter what people think 'cause I'm living for me"rThis had so much potential to be a decent metalcore album, too bad it's filled with sub-par lyricism and terrible clean sung verses. |
| Avslut Deceptis | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| The Drowned God Moonbearer | 3.0 |
| Somali Yacht Club The Sea | 3.0 |
| Apostle of Solitude From Gold to Ash | 2.5 |
| Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt Dys/Closure | 3.5 |
| Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt Accord/Dance | 3.5 |
| Unfathomable Ruination Finitude | 3.5 |
| Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow | 2.0 |
| Here Comes the Kraken Here Comes the Kraken | 1.5 |
| Here Comes the Kraken Hate, Greed & Death | 1.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse Left Hand Pass | 2.0 |
| Merlin The Wizard | 3.0 |
| Kaoteon Damnatio Memoriae | 3.5 |
| I?m just sitting here trying to not give out 4?s like Oprah giving away cars. |
| Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar... | 3.5 |
| Usurpress Interregnum | 4.5 |
| Usurpress The Regal Tribe | 3.5 |
| Usurpress Ordained | 3.5 |
| Usurpress Trenches of the Netherworld | 4.0 |
| We Sell The Dead Heaven Doesn't Want You... | 2.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death | 3.0 |
| Destroyer 666 Call of the Wild | 3.5 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman | 3.0 |
| Cabal (DK) Mark Of Rot | 3.0 |
| Points for trying something different but this reeks of too much genericore to define itself as a whole new animal. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 1.5 |
| Angra Ømni | 3.0 |
| Mournful Congregation The Incubus of Karma | 4.5 |
| Genocide Pact Order Of Torment | 2.5 |
| Chaos Echoes Mouvement | 4.0 |
| Death/Doom pulsating in a mechanical (dare I say) quasi-Portal style. The production only builds on the tensile riffing and spiraling instrumentation. |
| Chaos Echoes Transient | 3.5 |
| Forever Never Forever Never | 4.0 |
| Forever Never I Can't Believe It's Not Metal | 3.0 |
| They call me Mr Boombastic....rIf there was ever a need for a Shaggy goes metal cover this is basically it. |
| Forever Never Speak Up! | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 2.5 |
| Horizon Ablaze The Weight Of A Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.0 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed | 4.0 |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II | 3.5 |
| Erdve Vaitojimas | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 3.5 |
| Therion Beloved Antichrist | 1.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus | 4.0 |
| Never See Tomorrow To The Depths | 4.0 |
| Forever Never Aporia | 3.0 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.5 |
| Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe | 2.5 |
| Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 3.0 |
| Greber Cemetery Preston | 3.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Ark Prevails | 2.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Ark | 2.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Divination | 3.5 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 3.4 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 2.0 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 2.0 |
| Legend of the Seagullmen Legend of the Seagullmen | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 4.0 |
| Anthrax For All Kings | 3.0 |
| Tankard One Foot In The Grave | 2.5 |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements | 2.5 |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | 4.5 |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless | 3.5 |
| Adrift for Days A Sleepless Grey | 3.5 |
| Spectral Lore III | 4.0 |
| Pulse Aberration | 2.5 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 4.0 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself IV | 3.5 |
| Make a Change...Kill Yourself Make a Change...Kill Yourself | 3.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 4.5 |
| Saxon Thunderbolt | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah | 2.5 |
| Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh | 3.5 |
| Artificial Construct Lurker | 1.5 |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.0 |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt | 3.0 |
| Fyrnask Fórn | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones | 4.0 |
| Pestilence Hadeon | 3.0 |
| Agrimonia Awaken | 4.0 |
| Skindred Volume | 3.0 |
| Cynic Uroboric Forms | 2.0 |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion | 3.5 |
| Krypts Unending Degradation | 4.0 |
| Cyclamen (JPN) Amida | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Textures Dualism | 3.5 |
| Locktender Rodin | 4.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity No Cross No Crown | 2.5 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Black Procession | 2.5 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.0 |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine | 2.5 |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 3.0 |
| Monolithe Monolithe Zero | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Nebula Septem | 3.0 |
| Monolithe Zeta Reticuli | 3.0 |
| Slow (BE) III - Gaïa | 4.0 |
| SUMA The Order of Things | 3.0 |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt | 3.0 |
| Yhdarl Loss | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 3.0 |
| Vassafor Malediction | 2.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 3.5 |
| The Ominous Circle Appalling Ascension | 2.5 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 3.5 |
| Cruciamentum Paradise Envenomed | 3.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 4.0 |
| Desolate Shrine Deliverance from the Godless Void | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage All Fours | 3.5 |
| Nachtmystium The World We Left Behind | 2.5 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Haven | 3.0 |
| Cough Still They Pray | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 3.5 |
| Light the Torch They Bleed Red (as Devil You Know) | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Hourglass: Anthology Collection | 4.0 |
| A box set of Lamb Of Gods more well known songs starting from their Burn The Priest days, It has better tracks from Sacrament, Wrath, etc. it also contains bonus tracks and never before heard recordings. A quality edition for Lamb Of God Fans. |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Alluring Alluring | 3.0 |
| Aksumite Vinegar Perimeter | 3.0 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey Arche | 4.0 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 3.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.5 |
| GWAR Battle Maximus | 3.0 |
| GWAR The Blood of Gods | 2.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.7 |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 4.0 |
| Hamferd Támsins likam | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs | 4.0 |
| Blood Urn ...Of Gory Sorcery and Death | 3.0 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.5 |
| Mutiny Within Synchronicity | 4.0 |
| After a three year wait, this does not dissapoint. The album is a complete package, and comes together the strongest the band has produced so far. |
| Mutiny Within Mutiny Within | 4.0 |
| Summoning With Doom We Come | 3.5 |
| Sanctity Road to Bloodshed | 4.0 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 2.5 |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner | 2.0 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson | 2.5 |
| Black Label Society Grimmest Hits | 2.5 |
| Khemmis Hunted | 4.0 |
| Primitive Man Caustic | 3.0 |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate Hate Me | 2.0 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 3.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 2.0 |
| Northlane Node | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 3.0 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 3.0 |
| Mgla With Hearts Toward None | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Synthesis | 2.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Ceremony and Devotion | 3.0 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.0 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.5 |
| Yhdarl Ave Maria | 4.0 |
| Crossfaith Wipeout | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue | 2.5 |
| Locktender Friedrich | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace Human | 1.5 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Catharsis | 2.5 |
| Eluveitie Evocation II: Pantheon | 3.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Khram | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| HYVMINE Earthquake | 2.5 |
| King Apathy The Elk | 3.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation The Orphean Lyre | 2.5 |
| Alcest Kodama | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Eternal | 3.0 |
| The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost | 2.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.0 |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression | 3.5 |
| Psycroptic Psycroptic | 2.5 |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever | 3.0 |
| Suffocation …Of the Dark Light | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture | 4.0 |
| Krallice Go Be Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 2.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 1.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale | 2.0 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Defy | 2.5 |
| Terror Universal Make Them Bleed | 0.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.0 |
| Enslaved E | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.0 |
| Arkan Kelem | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Rituals | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar i vaket tillstånd | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.5 |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock | 3.0 |
| Portal ION | 4.0 |
| Ataraxy Revelations of the Ethereal | 3.0 |
| Slow (BE) V - Oceans | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained | 2.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 3.0 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero | 3.5 |
| Devouring Humanity Eradication of Living Human Shit | 2.5 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 3.5 |
| Eye of Solitude Cenotaph | 5.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Path of Eight | 4.0 |
| Path Of Eight continues to surprise on each track. This album is quickly becoming one of my favourites for the year. |
| Saor Guardians | 4.0 |
| Falls just short of his last release but Andy Marshall sure has his finger on the very pulse of what Saor is. Guardians adds to a sure legacy being built from record to record. Falling just short of an hour's run time it's easy to get swept away in these compositions. |
| Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under Crypt of the Devil | 2.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest | 1.0 |
| Vale of Pnath II | 3.0 |
| Obscura Retribution | 2.5 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 3.0 |
| Obscura Akróasis | 4.5 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 2.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive | 4.0 |
| Rorcal Creon | 4.0 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.5 |
| Iconoclast HalluciNation | 2.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution | 2.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 2.5 |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows | 4.0 |
| Ashbringer Yūgen | 4.0 |
| Ashbringer Vacant | 3.5 |
| Schammasch Triangle | 4.0 |
| Sielunvihollinen Tuhontuoja | 2.5 |
| Blood Red Throne Union of Flesh and Machine | 2.5 |
| For a group with so much potential this is painfully ordinary. Sure, it's got some riffs but that doesn't redeem this album past average. |
| Dragged Into Sunlight/Gnaw Their Tongues N.V. | 3.0 |
| Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End | 3.5 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 3.5 |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 3.0 |
| Coldworld Autumn | 3.5 |
| Inter Arma Paradise Gallows | 3.5 |
| Nonpoint Nonpoint | 2.5 |
| Nonpoint Vengeance | 1.5 |
| Nonpoint To the Pain | 3.5 |
| Nonpoint The Return | 3.5 |
| Nonpoint The Poison Red | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky | 3.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Muscle and Marrow Love | 3.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.0 |
| Despised Icon Beast | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 4.0 |
| Textures Phenotype | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.0 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 4.0 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.0 |
| Grave Miasma Endless Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| "so if you like to the point cavernous death it's perfectly dank."r |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa | 3.0 |
| Rage The Devil Strikes Again | 3.0 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 3.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver Trust No One | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Monolithe II | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Monolithe III | 4.0 |
| Monolithe Monolithe IV | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Epsilon Aurigae | 3.5 |
| Monolithe Monolithe I | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Shallow Life | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium | 2.5 |
| Beartooth Aggressive | 2.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 9 Dead Alive | 2.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Area 52 | 2.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 3.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela re-Foc | 2.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 3.5 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 3.0 |
| Mesarthim Isolate | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 3.0 |
| Serious Beak Ankaa | 4.0 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| Dumbsaint Panorama, In Ten Pieces | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 3.5 |
| Desolate Shrine The Heart of the Netherworld | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Archangel | 3.5 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 3.5 |
| Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage / Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 3.5 |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children The Long Goodbye | 3.0 |
| Enslaved In Times | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 1.0 |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Decas | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Something that can be listened to but does not raise any musical bars. Steady release for parkway drive- but rather unexciting |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes | 2.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers | 2.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Time and Trauma | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Omen | 3.0 |
| Machinemade God The Infinity Complex | 2.0 |
| Machinemade God Masked | 2.5 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.0 |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak | 2.5 |
| Vext Impermanence | 2.5 |
| Is neither here nor there. A group that has so much potential if only they actually had the balls to write some decent music. This Ep is lazy. |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth | 2.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues | 1.5 |
| DevilDriver Head on to Heartache | 2.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering | 2.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Spook the Horses Rainmaker | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 1.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.5 |
| Periphery Icarus | 1.5 |
| Periphery Clear | 2.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.0 |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood | 3.0 |
| Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition | 3.5 |
| Exodus Blood In, Blood Out | 3.0 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted | 2.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma | 3.0 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Primitive | 2.0 |
| Soulfly Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Soulfly | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Enslaved | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Against | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Nation | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 3.5 |
| Sepultura A-Lex | 2.0 |
| Lights and Motion Chronicle | 3.0 |
| Torche Restarter | 2.5 |
| Abstracter Wound Empire | 4.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.5 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 3.5 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 3.5 |
| Shits on your Periphery Juggernaunt slam-feat. The boys from Australia take the who double album theme to the next level. |
| Finsterforst Mach Dich Frei | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 2.5 |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart | 3.0 |
| You wish your stool could be this solid. Leave your shit at the door, you can pick this up and walk away. |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.0 |
| This is actually pretty, sorta, good. I mean, take it for what it is but when the guy isn't being a biker nazi on TV he can make passable music. |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 2.5 |
| Encoffination Elegant Funerals For The Unknown Dead | 2.5 |
| Encoffination Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh | 3.0 |
| Encoffination III - Hear Me, O' Death (Sing Thou Wretched Choirs | 4.0 |
| rThis is dethin' doomin' sex wrapped in skull bones. Sing Thou Wretched Choirs, |
| Eye of Solitude Dear Insanity | 4.5 |
| Eye of Solitude The Ghost | 3.0 |
| Eye of Solitude Awoken by Crows | 3.5 |
| Obituary Inked in Blood | 3.0 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 2.0 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.5 |
| Encoffination O Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Beyond the Infinite | 3.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 2.5 |
| Finds it annoying that my original (and valid) soundoff wasd. It's hard to find thoughts that cohere on any level with Sputnik's elitism. .5 The Gray Chapter is not the album it was hyped up to be, after a six year break, but it's far from being a 'bad' release. Slipknot teeters on the same formula with new blood and the surprising "Killpop" actually highlights the new record. |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Say what you will about Machine Head's career, the up's and down's are on a steady bell curve in a general ascent. Sure, they'll never make another The Blackening again, but neither will they return to the early days. Bloodstone and Diamonds brings back accessible track times with only a mere couple extending on the seven minute mark. Flynn's vocals aren't any surprise, nor is the new inclusion on bass. Some stand-outs include: Sail Into The Black, In Comes The Flood and Imaginal Cells. |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 2.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly | 4.0 |
| Execration (NOR) Morbid Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 3.0 |
| Manes Be All End All | 4.0 |
| Botanist VI: Flora | 4.0 |
| Luna (UA) Ashes to Ashes | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 2.5 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 2.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.5 |
| Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal | 4.0 |
| Album is a tital wave, before gently bobbing waters. It's majestic and eerie. Top of the genre without having a fifty minute track. |
| Inter Arma The Cavern | 2.5 |
| Septa Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels | 3.5 |
| Eden Circus Marula | 4.0 |
| Falloch This Island, Our Funeral | 2.5 |
| Xerath III | 2.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Krieg Transient | 4.0 |
| U2 Songs of Innocence | 3.5 |
| So many with an unwillingness to understand. U2 have earned the name as a staple in music. Songs Of Innocence simply follows the formula of a band so very successful whether you understand the hype or not. Unfortunately the under 18 year old's of Sputnikmusic lack the capacity to rub brain cells together. |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 2.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 2.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 3.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.5 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 3.0 |
| Atrum Tempestas Neant | 3.5 |
| Nonpoint Miracle | 2.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 3.5 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 3.0 |
| Nunslaughter Angelic Dread | 3.5 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 3.0 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 4.0 |
| Evoken Embrace the Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Doom VS Dead Words Speak | 3.5 |
| Doom VS Earthless | 4.0 |
| Pathology Throne of Reign | 2.5 |
| Usnea Usnea | 3.0 |
| Inborn Suffering Regression To Nothingness | 1.5 |
| Horrendous The Chills | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 2.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.5 |
| Choppy diluted Peth with extra "Oh". Sputnik's average rating is confusion galore. |
| Blues Pills Blues Pills | 4.0 |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar | 3.5 |
| The Flower Kings Desolation Rose | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 3.5 |
| Cloak of Altering Plague Beasts | 2.0 |
| Mamaleek He Never Spoke a Mumblin Word | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.0 |
| Empyrium The Turn of the Tides | 1.5 |
| Such a disappointment, would have loved a natural progression but it seems the tides never truly returned. |
| Vuyvr Incinerated Gods | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.5 |
| Ill Nino Enigma | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino Dead New World | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Epidemia | 4.0 |
| Origin Omnipresent | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 2.5 |
| Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight | 2.5 |
| Alestorm Back Through Time | 3.5 |
| Auroch Taman Shud | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Total Fucking Necro | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.0 |
No real build up on a stereotypical display of music. It might be new for them, but it's far
from fresh. Take it as you will. |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 3.5 |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium | 3.5 |
| Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals Walk Through Exits Only | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 2.0 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus - The Remixes | 1.5 |
| Morbid Angel Heretic | 2.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked | 3.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse Blunted at Birth | 2.5 |
| Cannabis Corpse The Weeding | 2.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 3.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 3.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Botanist IV: Mandragora | 4.0 |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness | 4.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 3.5 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Origins | 4.0 |
| With more staying power than the previous releases it's clear that Eluveitie have a lot more to offer until their pool of talent runs dry. Origins picks up where Helvetios left off, bombastic rhthms and constant melodies interplay with the group's harsh growls. It's catchy, it's infectious - - a ride from start to finish. If there are any flaws to be found, it's in the band's ability to be completely comfortable with their sound. |
| Helm (AU) Vol 3… Panthalassa | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie The Early Years | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was | 3.0 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Oblivion EP | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| An excellent example of a band mixing many features into a quality and enjoyable listen. Featuring psychadelic, progressive and metal features, with technical guitar riffs and melodic leads its a reccomend for metal enthusiasts everywhere. |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.5 |
| Wo Fat The Conjuring | 3.5 |
| Vinterbris Solace | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.5 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress | 4.0 |
| Shape of Despair Shades Of... | 3.0 |
| Shape of Despair Illusion's Play | 3.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Interludium I: Funeral Path | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 4.5 |
| The Atlas Moth The Old Believer | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 1.5 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 2.0 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 2.5 |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore | 2.5 |
| Arkan Sofia | 4.0 |
| Arkan Hilal | 2.5 |
| Arkan Salam | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.0 |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask | 4.0 |
| Impetuous Ritual Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society have lifted the expectations of their own music. It's not flashy in regards of toppling a genre but strong enough to bring back the band's former glory. |
| Brutality Will Prevail Suspension of Consciousness | 1.5 |
| Saor Roots | 4.0 |
| Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path | 2.0 |
| Light the Torch The Beauty of Destruction(Devil You Know | 3.0 |
| Despite the ever-growing hype train from the ashes of former Killswitch Engage frontman, Howard Jones and the other various artists joining on this new moniker, The Beauty Of Destruction leaves something to be desired. Devil You Know releases 47 minutes of passable metalcore filled to the brim with the nuances that made Jones' stint with KsE so successful. The Beauty Of Destruction is formulaic, but delivers everything it was meant to. 'For The Dead And Broken' stands as a distinguishable highlight. |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo | 2.5 |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows | 2.0 |
| Monster Magnet Dopes to Infinity | 3.0 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch | 2.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia | 2.5 |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa | 3.0 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 2.0 |
| TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred | 2.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Hoagascht | 3.5 |
| Avantasia The Mystery Of Time | 4.0 |
| Adrift for Days The Lunar Maria | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.5 |
| Shattered Hope Waters Of Lethe | 2.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 3.5 |
| Vindensang Alpha | 3.0 |
| Enthroned Sovereigns | 3.5 |
| A change up in members doesn't shake the foundations of Enthroned's music. At the same time, there's no 'real' disappointment as the new blood holds pace with the band's back catalog. 'Sovereigns' is another bombastic slab of black metal with a modern infusion. It's dynamic and shifts enough to maintain interest. |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 3.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.5 |
| Gaped The Murderous Inception | 1.5 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Black Honey | 4.0 |
| Insain Enlightening the Unknown | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Death Angel Killing Season | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.0 |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun | 2.5 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved | 1.5 |
| Horseback Half Blood | 3.0 |
| Horseback A Plague Of Knowing | 3.5 |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale | 3.0 |
| Rush Signals | 4.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Culted Oblique to All Paths | 2.5 |
| The Unguided Fragile Immortality | 1.5 |
| Behemoth Grom | 2.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.0 |
| Benighted Asylum Cave | 3.5 |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was...Liber III | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Debemur MoRTi | 2.0 |
| Separatist Closure | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Acts of the Unspeakable | 3.5 |
| Autopsy Shitfun | 2.0 |
| Kauan Pirut | 4.0 |
| Disma Towards the Megalith | 3.5 |
| Slough Feg Digital Resistance | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Zealotry The Charnel Expanse | 2.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.0 |
| Lifeless, formless heading in one single direction |
| Miserable Failure Hope | 3.5 |
| Lvcifyre Svn Eater | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.5 |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age | 3.5 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak | 3.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.6 |
| Agalloch The Grey | 2.5 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh | 3.5 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows | 3.0 |
| Skagos Anarchic | 3.0 |
| Skagos Ast | 2.5 |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 3.5 |
| Year of No Light Tocsin | 3.0 |
| Outwailed Observant | 3.0 |
| Bong Stoner Rock | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 3.5 |
| Twenty tracks of joy for a band that was slowly fading off the map. Soilwork have stretched out, when they really needed to. |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 2.5 |
| Dying Sun Transcendence | 3.0 |
| Kampfar Mare | 2.5 |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) LA Reh 012 | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation Hydra | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Pulse | 2.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Stronghold of the Inviolables | 2.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Carved in Stigmata Wounds | 3.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Antithesis | 4.0 |
| A display of a black metal band that simply knows how to do the simple things well, one the best of the genre, even though not widely heard. |
| Secrets of the Moon Privilegivm | 3.5 |
| Secrets of the Moon Seven Bells | 4.0 |
| Secrets of the Moon The Exhibitions | 3.0 |
| Skindred Kill the Power | 3.5 |
| It has the hooks to drive its guitar laden, bombastic approach. But the overall song writing steps back from the band's previous release. Make no mistake the quasi formulaic structures are great and the rest push through. |
| Skindred Union Black | 3.0 |
| Tempel (USA-AZ) On the Steps of the Temple | 2.0 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 3.5 |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn | 4.0 |
| Drudkh/Winterfylleth Thousands of Moons Ago/The Gates | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Hexis Abalam | 4.0 |
| Suicidal Angels Divide And Conquer | 2.0 |
| Indian From All Purity | 3.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Got seventeen minutes? Of course you do. Abandon All Life is the sultry hard-hitting sonic onslaught of oppressive heaviness. Keep in mind that short was never meant to be ?sweet? on Nail?s sophomore ?full-length?. From top to bottom (no matter how short that may be) Abandon All Life ensures the utmost of intensity highlighting the gift of Todd Jones behind the microphone. A fury rarely seen and upheld over the course of ear-splitting riffs and semi-thundering drum patterns gives life to a release over before it can be fully processed. See ?In Exodus? for proof that ?heavy metal? is real and relatable in today?s music industry. There?s no remorse, no guilt, no waiting period or white flag signalling the retreat. Nails have come to place their boot on the neck of the hardcore genre, tying in some truly ferocious chops along the way. |
| Alcest Shelter | 3.0 |
| Ea Ea | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Sempiternal Past - The Darkthrone Demos | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 2.0 |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan | 3.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 2.5 |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths | 3.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Dead Horses | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| Of Solitude and Solemn Starlight's Guide | 4.0 |
| Mechina Xenon | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love | 3.5 |
| Capharnaum Fractured | 3.0 |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom | 1.5 |
| Richard Cheese The Sunny Side of the Moon | 3.0 |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy | 3.5 |
| Still Remains Ceasing to Breathe | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 4.0 |
| Complete Freedom Alpha | 3.0 |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit | 4.0 |
| Appalachian Winter I Become The Frozen Land | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor | 4.0 |
| A perfect mood setter for days dry and windy. The mood is bleak but somehow the setting provides a stark beauty in a barren wasteland. It's times like this when you can fully understand why the bands of this genre spend so much time focusing on what others usually miss. |
| Secrets of the Sky To Sail Black Waters | 3.0 |
| Septa The Lover | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 1.5 |
| Just saw this compared to a 2.0 version of Metallica. Threw up a little bit. Now that's all good and fine if you're willing to throw the band into the same boat. But, as far as it goes LULU looks impressive when compared to this. Changing the recipe slightly does not change the fact that cheese and chalk should never be put on the same plate. |
| Lethe (NO) When Dreams Become Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Bathory Bathory | 4.0 |
| The Gardnerz It All Fades | 2.5 |
| We All Die (Laughing) Thoughtscanning | 4.0 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 2.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist | 2.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 2.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist (Deluxe Edition) | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 | 2.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 | 2.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Pre-Emptive Strike | 2.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Deos Fortitude.Pain.Suffering | 3.5 |
| Masterminded by the Eye Of Solitude vocalist Daniel DEOS highlights how one man can stretch away from his flagship project and stay well within his nuances. |
| Lidande I II III | 3.5 |
| Grand Magus Grand Magus | 3.0 |
| Why we have no review for this? rYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters |
| Grand Magus Triumph and Power | 3.5 |
| Won't topple the likes of 'The Hunt' but has some chops to match any of the band's other records. Only this time around the band is more cohesive throughout. |
| Grand Magus The Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Howling Void Nightfall | 3.0 |
| Passable at best, Nightfall continues The Howling Void's legacy. It's not impressive but it will do. |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 3.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 3.5 |
| Eye of Solitude Sui Caedere | 3.5 |
| Eye of Solitude Canto III | 4.5 |
| Eye of Solitude The Deceit | 3.5 |
| Ethereal Shroud Absolution|Emptiness | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 3.5 |
| Tyr Valkyrja | 3.0 |
| Mephistopheles Sounds Of The End | 3.0 |
| Bong Idle Days On The Yann | 3.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 3.0 |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls | 2.0 |
| Soulfly Savages | 3.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 2.5 |
| Korn continue to make music where listeners' collectively "sigh". |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Serenity in Fire | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Prevail | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Heaven's Venom | 2.5 |
| Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony | 3.5 |
| Ataraxie Anhedonie | 2.5 |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 4.5 |
| An opus of a record, moving from free flowing prog, to the dankest of black metal growls. Yes, the run time is huge, but how could you not grace such a massive record without the time needed to allow for full expression? Trvth is a modern take at 70s inspired movements shaped with precision and crafted down to the "tee". The album is beauty rolled, twisted transcending the norm. rfree download - http://trvth.bandcamp.com/album/black-horse-plague |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... | 4.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Ephemeral | 3.0 |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum | 4.0 |
| This is one of those records that will swing an ax into your groin, take heed, but don't forget to come back to it. |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... | 3.5 |
| YIDHRa Hexed | 3.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.0 |
| Frosttide Awakening | 2.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Opeth Burden | 2.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Pathology Lords of Rephaim | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 2.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 2.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 3.0 |
| Satyricon Satyricon | 2.5 |
| Samothrace Reverence to Stone | 3.0 |
| Windhand Soma | 3.0 |
| Portal Seepia | 3.5 |
| Portal Outre | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 2.5 |
| Slidhr Deluge | 3.5 |
| Ministry From Beer to Eternity | 2.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| Trivium In Waves | 3.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.5 |
| Trivium Trivium | 2.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit | 2.0 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Kairos | 3.5 |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart | 3.0 |
| I guess they can but there are those who need not wait for a stream to hear the album early.... |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned | 2.5 |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah | 3.5 |
| Svart (SWE) Det Personliga Helvetets Spiral | 3.0 |
| Lycus Tempest | 2.5 |
| Turisas 2013 | 1.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 2.5 |
| Craven Idol Ethereal Altars | 2.5 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 2.5 |
| Locktender Kafka | 4.5 |
| Apocynthion Sidereus Nuncius | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.5 |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Unhappy Despair | 4.0 |
| Unhappy Songs Before My Suicide | 3.5 |
| Unhappy Dark Crows | 3.5 |
| Unhappy Dear God, Thanks for the Suicide Option | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| Who could fault Darkthone for doing what they do? Certainly there is nothing surprising going on here, but that's okay we don't need surprises. Darkthrone write the music they want to write. |
| Watain The Wild Hunt | 3.0 |
| Watain release something just better than acceptable. Who would've thought they would bring a little Metallica to their modern day black metal, no, I'm not talking a case of the Hetfield "Yeah's", rather the mellow ballad somehow highlights the album. |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal II | 3.5 |
| Four tracks with one remix, it's not an expansive full-length release but its merits are deserved. Play it off the end of Vertikal (1) and the atmosphere matches the first. A display of self-ness, presented by a band that didn't want it any other way. |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| Sun Devoured Earth A Static Life | 3.5 |
| Sun Devoured Earth Sounds of Desolation | 3.0 |
| The Defiled Daggers | 1.5 |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms | 2.5 |
| Time for Chimaira to hang up their gear. This is too streamlined, for a band that's always used hooks this is over the top almost to a commercially viable, pop/radio level. It doesn't help when the groove has less edge, less gusto, the aggression is gone for a band who really should have been able to do better than this. |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 3.5 |
| The technicality's still here, the pace is maintained and the symphonic is as prominent as ever. It's not perfect, this combination will always clash heads but it seems that Fleshgod Apocalypse are finally putting the two together in a manageable and interesting form. The album does what it needs to and well, but the almost fifty-five minutes of symphonic cliches tied over a melodic tech-death instrumental effort does tire the listener. It's got room to grow, just not a lot. |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 2.5 |
| Primitive Graven Image Traversing the Awesome Night | 3.0 |
| Imprecation Satanae Tenebris Infinita | 3.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 2.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 2.0 |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone | 4.0 |
| Australia's Hope Drone marks an excellent entry into the world of hybrid post-black metal. It's gritty, clean transcending the typical "pretty" sounds peppered in the genre. It's not for light listening, these four tracks were made with intent, and intent is surely given. |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 4.0 |
| Thaw Thaw | 3.5 |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn | 3.0 |
| Quest of Aidance Misanthropic Propaganda | 2.5 |
| Ade Spartacus | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.0 |
| Album leaks and Sput's userbase goes wild. Sure enough Ghost's second release is a steady beast but it just like the Archille's heel, it doesn't have the same impact as the debut. Tracks like Secular Haze, Year Zero (the album's singles) are standouts but the band did everything they needed to on the first release. Make no mistake, the album will Satan your socks off, but it will tickle your feet as it does so. |
| Forlorn Path Man's Last Portrait | 3.0 |
| Finsterforst Rastlos | 4.0 |
| Raxa Starchildren | 3.5 |
| Sirenia Perils of the Deep Blue | 3.0 |
| Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the... | 2.5 |
| Havok Unnatural Selection | 2.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.1 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Serious Beak Huxwhukw | 4.0 |
| Palms Palms | 2.5 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 2.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion | 1.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas | 4.0 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind | 3.5 |
| Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker | 3.5 |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand | 3.0 |
| Cough Sigillum Luciferi | 3.0 |
| Cough Ritual Abuse | 3.0 |
| Thou Peasant | 4.0 |
| Thou Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Coffinworm When All Became None | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.5 |
| Suffocation Suffocation | 3.0 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal | 2.0 |
| Coffins Mortuary in Darkness | 3.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 3.5 |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| Cathedral The Last Spire | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 3.5 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony I: Deep Dark Red | 3.0 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony III: Monolith | 4.0 |
| Adrift for Days Come Midnight... | 4.0 |
| Hela Broken Cross | 4.0 |
| Vader Welcome to the Morbid Reich | 4.0 |
| Deicide Deicide | 4.0 |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part | 2.0 |
| Deicide To Hell With God | 3.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Come Death | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Throne Souls of Damnation | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Throne Blood Red Throne | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 2.5 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 2.5 |
| Devil Time to Repent | 3.0 |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual | 2.5 |
| Hacride Back To Where You've Never Been | 2.5 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 4.0 |
| Whelm A Gaze Blank and Pitiless as The Sun | 4.0 |
| Kagrenak Black Vertical Shadows | 4.0 |
| Kagrenak Part One | 3.0 |
| Kagrenak Part Two | 3.5 |
| Short exposures to the monolithic world of funeral doom metal, only this is the second chapter. |
| Thou Summit | 3.5 |
| Bell Witch Longing | 3.5 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 3.0 |
| Doomsword Doomsword | 2.5 |
| Doomsword The Eternal Battle | 4.0 |
| Enshine Origin | 3.5 |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 3.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 5.0 |
| ...life's short - five everything...rAll Hail! Pink adorned black metal albums for everyone! |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Manuscript | 2.5 |
| Mourning Beloveth Formless | 3.0 |
| Talisman Stone LoveCraftopolis | 4.5 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 4.0 |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void | 3.0 |
| Evoken Atra Mors | 4.0 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Symphony II: Absence Of Life | 3.0 |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Prelude To Monolith | 3.5 |
| How minimal is this, how long can you sit still? And why the fuck don't people know about this band? |
| Until Death Overtakes Me Days Without Hope | 3.0 |
| This one man minimalistic funeral doom metaler culminates a bit of everything found in his past release creating a quality listen from front to back. The album has flaws in bringing it all together and for some reason that's why the other albums fair better in terms of quality. |
| Sacriphyx The Western Front | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season From Below | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land All Is One | 2.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 2.5 |
| Frigoris Wind | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 5.0 |
| I may be pulling the trigger here a touch early, but this is your AOTY. It swirls, transcends, grabs, pulls, grows and takes a hold on the darkest parts of your emotions. It's a change from previous releases in more than a couple of ways. Track length suits a better all rounded sense and they have dropped the black metal intensity opting for a smoother post/experimental sound. |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 3.5 |
| Aborym Dirty | 3.0 |
| De Magia Veterum The Divine Antithesis | 3.0 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 3.0 |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence | 3.5 |
| Portal Swarth | 4.0 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 4.0 |
| Incantation Vanquish in Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Blood Oath | 2.5 |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 2.0 |
| Kongh Sole Creation | 3.5 |
| Wednesday 13 The Dixie Dead | 2.0 |
