2022: Jan-Jun
2022: Jan-Jun
Honestly curious to see if I get anywhere near 2021's ludicrous album count (~900) this year; should hopefully be some very high-scoring albums in the first couple of months, but otherwise let's hope for some good stuff this year!
Edit: Somehow managed to reach the list character limit, so going to delete some of the comments
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Rolo Tomassi
- Where Myth Becomes Memory
[8.5] - On initial listens, not quite a masterpiece like its predecessor, but still an incredibly strong record.\
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Playgrounded
- The Death Of Death
[8.5] - Great prog/post-metal sound coming naturally from Pelagic Records.
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Kardashev
- Liminal Rite
[8.5] - Fascinating mesh of deathcore, blackgaze, post-metal and other styles in an emotionally charged package.
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Shadow Of Intent
- Elegy
[8.5] - Rising to the challenge set by Melancholy, this album further cements Shadow Of Intent as frontrunners of the symph-deathcore pack.
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Path Of Might
- Deep Chrome
[8.5] - At times groovy stoner metal, at times almost droning ambient doom, other times more progressive, it's quite unique-sounding and it's great-sounding at the same time.
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Process Of Guilt
- Slaves Beneath The Sun
[8.5] - Perhaps not quite going to overtake Faemin, but this scratches an itch I've been waiting to have cured for a long time.
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Cult Of Luna
- The Long Road North
[8.5] - A bit disappointing for a new Cult Of Luna album, but it's still a Cult Of Luna album, so up high it goes.
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Ode And Elegy
- Ode And Elegy
[8.5] - Unique combination of chamber music and post-metal; it doesn't all grip me, but the emotions it stirs at its most passionate are something to behold.
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Humanotone
- A Flourishing Fall In A Grain Of Sand
[8.0] - An album made for Elder fans, of which I am one.
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Iomair
- Fishing For An Apparition
[8.0] - Wonderfully ambitious combination of American folk, post-hardcore, indie, melodeath, symphonics and other stuff.
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Celeste
- Assassine(s)
[8.0] - Strong album in a nebulous musical sphere, sounding something like a mesh of Gojira, blackgaze and sludge.
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Fit For An Autopsy
- Oh What The Future Holds
[8.0] - How Gojira may have sounded if they became a deathcore band.
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Katharos XIII
- Chthonian Transmissions
[8.0] - Highly impressive evolution from the already very promising Palindrome, refining a lot of that record's rough edges.
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Pyrithe
- Monuments To Impermanence
[8.0] - Very impressive genre-bending effort with a sludge base taken in progressive, atmospheric, dissonant and avant-garde directions.
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Empire Springs
- The Luminescence
[8.0] - Really pleasant melodic modern prog-metal album with strong emotion which manages to exhibit traits of djent-prog bands without using much djent at all.
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Arð
- Take Up My Bones
[8.0] - Very nice evocative atmosphere, effectively taking atmo-black vibes but placing them in a doom setting.
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Tersivel
- To The Orphic Void
[8.0] - This is nothing like I expected it to be based on the only previous experience I've had with Tersivel, and I mean that in the best way possible, a great transformation.
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Aurora (NOR)
- The Gods We Can Touch
[8.0] - Similar vein to Fever Ray, but poppier, I like the sound a lot.
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Rivers Ablaze
- The Black Hole Era
[8.0] - Great space-sounding techy, proggy, melodic extreme metal sound.
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Niechęć
- Unsubscribe
[8.0] - Remarkably evocative jazz/post-rock sound with some lovely sax solos.
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Ultha
- All That Has Never Been True
[8.0] - Finds a good mix of bleak, intense, blast-heavy suffocation, gaze-y shimmering, momentary sections of melody and other features.
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Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
- The Harvest
[8.0] - Another batch of good-quality weirdo stoner from these guys.
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Origin Of Escape
- Shapes
[8.0] - Eden Circus-esque alt/prog debut that sounds pretty great all around.
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Et Moriemur
- Tamashii No Yama
[8.0] - Intriguing gothic/death/doom sound (light on the death) with a fairly unique sound and a mesmerizing closing song.
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Evergrey
- A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
[8.0] - Perhaps the strongest entry into this high-quality run the current line-up has been on; the opening track is epic.
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Morrow
- The Quiet Earth
[8.0] - Great mix of hardcore, strings, post-metal, crust punk and other ideas.
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Greyhaven
- This Bright And Beautiful World
[8.0] - Mathcore/post-hardcore/metalcore, has plenty of frenetic chaos as well as more straightforward bludgeoning or powerful atmospheric inclinations, and some Puciato leanings in the vocals.
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Isaurian
- Deep Sleep Metaphysics
[8.0] - Tagged as 'doomgaze', this is far too uplifting to be doom, but it's really lush.
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Acherontas
- Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων
[8.0] - Cool black metal from Greece with sinister shamanic vocals; starts off intense and gets more melodic in the later tracks.
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52.
Super Satan
- Celestial
[8.0] - Melodic-inclined black metal with soothing female cleans on top, it works really well.
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Innana
- Void Of Unending Depths
[8.0] - Tasty long-form death metal songs with infernal atmosphere.
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Abraham
- Débris De Mondes Perdus
[8.0] - Bit too hardcore at times, but when it's more post-/sludge, they make some grimly atmospheric music; Fear Overthrown is a killer track.
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Soft Ffog
- Soft Ffog
[8.0] - Very tasty and fun jazz/prog rock album.
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Cailleach Calling
- Dreams Of Fragmentation
[8.0] - Very blast-heavy, but subtly enthralling cosmic atmo-black sound from the people behind Dawn Of Ouroboros.
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A Pale December
- Death Panacea
[8.0] - Tagged as atmo-black, there is definitely some of that here, but there's also a sharper, harder edged and a more in-your-face sound; really decent black metal effort.
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Somali Yacht Club
- The Space
[8.0] - More high-quality mellow and melancholic post-tinged stoner rock/metal.
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Gladenfold
- Nemesis
[8.0] - 'Extreme' power metal that isn't particularly extreme, but has lots of heart and character to it.
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Wyatt E.
- Āl Bēlūti Dārû
[8.0] - Very cool droney record with some middle Eastern instruments (get slight Epigenesis/Face The Sun vibes).
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Absent In Body
- Plague God
[8.0] - Oppressive, industrial post-metal from this Amenra/Neurosis supergroup.
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Zeal & Ardor
- Zeal & Ardor
[8.0] - A good next step to take in terms of balancing the original template with adding new ideas and expanding their sound.
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Grand Harvest
- Consummatum Est
[8.0] - Death/doom with both death and doom, from bursts of OSDM to sinister doom with solid dark melodic guitar leads.
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Blut Aus Nord
- Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
[8.0] - Really ominous, effective atmosphere on this record, but perhaps lacking a smidge in range, either in terms of style or intensity.
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Seventh Wonder
- The Testament
[8.0] - Juicily hooky, if lacking the album-wide gravitas of their previous records with the lack of a similar concept.
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Imminent Sonic Destruction
- The Sun Will Always Set
[8.0] - A very solid prog metal album with heavy moments, nice melodic moments and interesting song structures.
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Entgeist
- Res Gestae
[8.0] - Solid proggy black metal album with engaging song structures, riffs and melodies.
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The Chapter
- Delusion Of Consciousness
[8.0] - Rather solid melodic death-y doom album with some lovely melodic guitar work.
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Tyrannus
- Unslayable
[8.0] - Gratifyingly sinister black metal debut; some of the guitar leads threw me a bit, but overall it hits hard and has the right vibe.
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Desolate Shrine
- Fires Of The Dying World
[8.0] - Cavernous yet hooky, has some tasty grooves and stomps, good band.
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Backbone
- Embracing Dissolution
[8.0] - The promise of Grey Foundations Of Stone is mostly delivered on here, albeit with some reservations.
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Marrasmieli
- Martaiden Mailta
[8.0] - Pleasing folk/black metal follow-up; becomes folkier as it progresses and I enjoy it more in the process.
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Pythonissam
- Transcending To R'lyeh
[8.0] - Funeral doom with a decent dynamic range on top of the expected glacial trudge.
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Terzij De Horde
- In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy
[8.0] - Tasty post-oriented black metal with some relentless blast-beating.
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Thebes
- Ziggurat Beyond The Unseen Shroud
[8.0] - Very decent sad meloblack debut EP/album.
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Bríi
- Corpos Transparentes
[8.0] - The mixture of black metal, ambient, and electronic music styles here remains unique and compelling.
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Kvaen
- The Great Below
[8.0] - On the stronger end of the meloblack spectrum, tracks such as In Silence and Ensamvarg stand out positively.
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Moon Tooth
- Phototroph
[8.0] - Solid post-hardcorey melodic prog album with Greg Puciato-sounding vocals.
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Black Lung
- Dark Waves
[8.0] - Bit too psych/hard rock at times, but the doomy parts and the more Elder-ish jams are pretty lush.
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Dysnerved
- Man In The Middle
[8.0] - Solid early-year dissonant black/death debut effort.
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Notturno
- Obsessions
[8.0] - Atmospheric black/doom approach that provides a lighter spin on the blackened doom concept rather successfully.
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Extinction In Progress
- Shades Of Pale
[8.0] - Very promising progressive melodeath/meloblack debut; not every riff lands, but most of them make a good impression.
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Sallow Moth
- Failure To Find
[8.0] - Madcap prog death single-song EP that's unfortunately apparently the conclusion of the project.
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Idol Of Fear
- Trespasser
[8.0] - Peculiar mix of more sinister black metal in the vein of Emptiness with theatrical keyboards on top.
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Animårum
- The Gaian Mind
[7.5] - Encouraging and brief debut prog-death debut with some djent and Amazonian influences in there.
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Cursed Cemetery
- A Frozen Epitaph
[7.5] - is more substantial than most drone albums and also has a really satisfying tone to it, kinda ritualistic and kinda groovy.
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Hollow Decay
- The Frozen Trail
[7.5] - Nice melodeath debut with some progginess, some folky melodies and other bits and pieces; I hear some New World Shadows Omnium Gatherum hints in there.
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Nordic Giants
- Symbiosis
[7.5] - Very dainty cinematic post-rock, and the songs with vocals work really nicely.
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Copse
- Mara
[7.5]
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Answer From Cygnus
- Cygnus
[7.5] - Stirring and evocative melodic/atmospheric black sound with blackgaze leanings, and an intriguing female vocal feature later on.
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Final Light
- Final Light
[7.5] - First impressions: not as amazing as it was live, but still very cool.
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Steroid Puppets
- Earthguest
[7.5] - Really nice and upbeat easy-listening jazzy instrumental djent stuff.
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Stengah
- Soma Sema
[7.5] - Named after a Meshuggah song, there is Meshuggah-inspired djent in here, but it's also got more dynamic range, with some nice cleaner stretches and nifty song structures.
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Wovenhand
- Silver Sash
[7.5] - Cool Western-tinged acoustic/psychedelic rock sound.
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Denigrate
- Blackguard
[7.5] - Pleasantly evocative guitar melodies in this gothic metal album. Likely to be one of the highlights of the genre this year, generally sounds rather good.
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Cavernlight
- As I Cast Ruin Upon The Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw
[7.5] - Appropriately miserable doomy sludge.
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Envy Of None
- Envy Of None
[7.5] - Really cool subdued alt rock album, an interesting new direction for Alex Lifeson.
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Sergeant Thunderhoof
- This Sceptred Veil
[7.5] - Stoner-y, doom-y album with some feels on tracks such as Foreigner.
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Luminous Vault
- Animate The Emptiness
[7.5] - Very effective mesh-up of black, industrial and other metal styles.
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Yarostan
- II
[7.5] - Very solid post-metal/post-hardcore mash-up.
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Montparnasse Musique
- Origins
[7.5] - Very neat Afrobeat/techno.
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146.
Jani Liimatainen
- My Father's Son
[7.5] - Surprisingly non-power metally considering the guest list, this is a slightly powery, slightly proggy (particularly on the impressive closer), rather enjoyable melodic metal album, even if I'd probably pick Esa Holopainen's album over it.
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147.
Silent Kingdom
- The Shadowless Queen
[7.5] - Ambitious 30-minute prog song-album with hints of Riverside and more classic prog rock; a bit too wanky later on though.
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Yoo Doo Right
- A Murmur, Boundless To The East
[7.5] - Another cool psych-rock odyssey from these guys.
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Carpenter Brut
- Leather Terror
[7.5] - Some good collabs here and some synthwave bangers too.
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Mizmor
- Myopia [Collaboration]
[7.5] - Solid sludgy blackened doom combination, but one that runs on for a bit too long at 83 minutes.
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In Angles
- Cardinal
[7.5] - Fun, poppy, hooky post-hardcore.
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OK Wait
- Well
[7.5]
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Neurotech
- Symphonies II
[7.5] - A definite step up from the last album, the metal feels more purposeful, and the electronics have more character; this long-form songwriting works well for Neurotech's sound.
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Saidan
- Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal
[7.5] - An eclectic mixture of meloblack, blackgaze, post-hardcore, pop punk and further-reaching styles.
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Enterprise Earth
- The Chosen
[7.5] - Overly long at 67 minutes, but a very respectable melodic deathcore sound with some great clean vocal sections.
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Bjorn Riis
- Everything To Everyone
[7.5] - Really soothing, mellow soft prog album.
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Allt
- The Seed Of Self-Destruction
[7.5] - Solid djentcore EP from a band that will probably make some waves soon.
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Cave In
- Heavy Pendulum
[7.5] - A bit overlong, but probably one of the most enjoyable Cave In records I've listened to, some proper rowdy stuff.
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Worm Shepherd
- Ritual Hymns
[7.5] - Not in the elite tier of deathcore, but there's plenty of tasty tracks here. Also a good example of less developed symphonics in deathcore that highlight how good Shadow Of Intent are at incorporating them.
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The Midgard Project
- The Great Divide
[7.5] - Well-written prog/power album with similarities to Symphony X amongst others, featuring Stu Block on vocals.
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Platon Karataev
- Partért Kiáltó
[7.5] - A really pleasant emotional rock album taking cues from post-rock, shoegaze and arguably neofolk.
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Oh Hiroshima
- Myriad
[7.5] - Dreamy post-rock with gaze-y vibes.
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Porcupine Tree
- Closure / Continuation
[7.5] - Sounds like classic PT, but missing standout moments on first listen.
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Miseration
- Black Miracles And Dark Wonders
[7.5] - Sounds very Lorna Shore/SoI to me, so I'm surprised I don't see it described as a deathcore album anywhere, but I naturally rather like it.
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Strange Pop
- Ten Years Gone
[7.5] - Mellow and pleasant cinematic prog sound.
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Wo Fat
- The Singularity
[7.5] - Cool album when it's not bog-standard desert rock; 75 minutes is a bit excessive though.
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Poliça
- Madness
[7.5] - Mellow, subdued, evocative synthpop.
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Ornamentos Del Miedo
- Yo, No Soy Yo
[7.5] - Melancholic funeral doom with synths and gothic guitar leads.
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The Last Oblation
- Ascend
[7.5] - Kinda techy, slightly melodic, has some punching riffs and quality solos, generally a good time death metal album.
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Agathodaimon
- The Seven
[7.5] - Blackened, occasionally gothic, occasionally symphonic, it's not an easy album to categorize but I quite like it.
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FT-17
- Aisne 1914
[7.5] - More melodic and not quite as compelling as 1914, but still a very decent WWI-themed black metal record.
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Hellbore
- Panopticon
[7.5] - Imposing prog-death album with nice use of symphonics, techiness and deathcore inclinations.
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Te Ruki
- Marako Te Ruki
[7.5] - Overall fairly interesting, but there's hints in here of something potentially greater if they exploit the elements that are seemingly inspired by their traditional music in French Polynesia; the 90s Fisher Price BM synth sounds don't add too much to the record.
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189.
Towers Of Jupiter
- III
[7.5] - Upper-tier evocative post-rock with Porcupine Tree-ish vocals.
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Perpetual Night
- Aconitum
[7.5] - Solid melodeath record with Gothenburg moments and Finnish melancholy.
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Fostermother
- The Ocean
[7.5] - Generic but very enjoyable stoner doom sound at the lighter, groovier end of that spectrum.
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Brood Of Hatred
- The Golden Age
[7.5] - Fairly brief but enjoyable proggy melodeath album that doesn't follow any obvious template.
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Tinlicker
- In Another Lifetime
[7.5]
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Mass Worship
- Portal Tombs
[7.5] - Strong deathcore (albeit more death metal + hardcore than straight deathcore), got some tasty grooves, riffs and atmospheres.
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The Family Crest
- The War: Act II
[7.5] - Nice indie stuff.
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Atlantis Chronicles
- Nera
[7.5] - Nifty prog-metalcore with a bit of Protest The Hero to some of the instrumental work, as well as a bit of Shadow Of Intent to it as well.
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Darkher
- The Buried Storm
[7.5] - Mellow and melancholic, this remains engaging despite its subdued nature.
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Helioss
- Contre Ma Lumière
[7.5] - Symphonic progressive meloblack, it's ambitious and it comes together well.
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Jumalhämärä
- Of Enlightenment And Righteousness Pt. III
[7.5] - Well-crafted black-tinged prog long-song EP.
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Misery Index
- Complete Control
[7.5] - Rather decent death metal album with occasional semi-melodic moments; it was let down mostly by a couple of trudgers like Necessary Suffering when it hit hard going at top speed.
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Vermillion Dawn
- VVitch Den
[7.5] - Slick prog/tech-death with cool lead guitar parts.
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Sakis Tolis
- Among The Fires Of Hell
[7.5] - Gothic detour from the Rotting Christ man, some nice Paradise Lost-influenced guitars here.
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Mergö
- Depths
[7.5] - Nice morose blackgaze with decent lead guitar melodies.
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Sadist
- Firescorched
[7.5] - Somewhat peculiar prog-death with non-intense techiness and some intriguing Eastern musical elements.
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Sisyphean
- Colours Of Faith
[7.5] - Sharp-edged deathy black metal with tasteful dissonance and measured aggression.
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Heriot
- Profound Morality
[7.5] - Fiery industrial hardcore debut EP; this is how to make that combination actually good, Code Orange.
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225.
Babeheaven
- Sink Into Me
[7.5]
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Mosaic
- Heimatspuk
[7.5] - Black metal with Melechesh vibes in the droney folk parts; very good, except some of the singing sounds slightly off.
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Dreariness
- Before We Vanish
[7.5] - At-times doomy, and times post-metallic blackgaze that works quite well.
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228.
Lacrimae
- Contradiction
[7.5] - Cool and fairly different-sounding prog debut with good female vocals, an enjoyable mix of complexity and heavier alt-influenced grooves, and eerie softer moments.
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Winter's Gate
- The Voyage In Becoming
[7.5]
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Ho99o9
- Skin
[7.5]
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We Broke The Weather
- We Broke The Weather
[7.5]
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Azaab
- Summoning The Cataclysm
[7.5] - Rather good death metal debut with some OSDM and some tech inclinations, but also some good bursts of melody or ripping solos.
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Atramentum
- Through Fire, Everything Is Renewed
[7.5] - Good disso-black, not RLHT-tier despite the similar artwork though.
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237.
Design Flaw
- Beasts Of A Future Decay
[7.5] - Very promising atmospheric post-rock/post-hardcore/whatever EP.
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Kuolemanlaakso
- Kuusumu
[7.5] - Enjoyable melodic death-doom sound with a good mixture of melodic bombast and genuine extreme aggression.
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239.
Mental Fracture
- Disaccord
[7.5]
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Sataray
- Blood Trine Moon
[7.5] - Neat dark ambient EP with slight Chelsea Wolfe vibes.
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Tranzat
- Ouh La La
[7.5] - Quirky prog-metal album with some very cool ideas but also some moments where the exuberance becomes irritating.
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Slowbleed
- The Blazing Sun, A Fiery Dawn
[7.5] - Groovy, chunky and satisfying thrash/death/hardcore mash-up.
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Whales Don't Fly
- The Golden Sea
[7.5] - Somewhat promising prog debut, one that exhibits clear similarities in some songs to Persefone but is also generally geared towards a more mainstream metal sound, whilst also having some nicer softer detours. Definitely peaks on the last three songs, when it goes proper Persefone.
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Incandescence
- Le Coeur De L'Homme
[7.5] - Slightly melodic, slightly proggy black metal with some quality in its arsenal, without quite reaching greatness.
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Yin Yin
- The Age Of Aquarius
[7.5] - Weird but cool psychedelic disco thing.
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252.
Dunerider
- Ascend To The Void
[7.5] - Tasty stoner doom with filthy tone.
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The Hangmans Sorrow
- Divided Dimensions
[7.5] - Pretty solid gothic-but-not-really-gothic heavy album with nice vocals and melodicism.
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254.
End Boss
- They Seek My Head
[7.5] - Fem-fronted stoner with more dirty sludge to the riffs, which works in its favour.
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255.
Eisflammen
- Следуй За Мной
[7.5] - Fairly strong post-black album, with black metal bits, blackgaze bits and post- bits; generally likeable but too not many moments that really made an impact (the Enslaved-style clean vocals midway through Like Ash were cool).
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Soichi Terada
- Asakusa Light
[7.5] - Cool, mellow house record from seemingly a genre legend.
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Grayscale Season
- Do You Like Violence
[7.5] - Overlap of post-hardcore, metalcore, deathcore, djent, basically the -core spectrum in an accessible and pleasant package.
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Anna Sage
- Anna Sage
[7.5] - Hardcore album with bite but with appreciation of the importance of enjoyable riffs, as well as some potent moody moments, such as in Lost In A Cage.
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Jo Quail
- The Cartographer
[7.5]
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Dychromia
- The Dangers Of Curiosity
[7.5] - Nifty djenty/BTBAM-y/deathcorey debut.
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Kalandra
- Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands Soundtrack (Extended)
[7.5] - A good soundtrack album, but also not quite what I want from them, hope they return to The Line with the next album.
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Tishina
- Uvod...
[7.5] - Solid gothic-tinged death/doom debut with lush guitar lead melodies.
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Black Void
- Antithesis
[7.5] - The 'evil twin' of White Void, this crusty black metal (+ Borknagar melodicism) debut is perhaps more up my street than most of White Void's debut.
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268.
Lettuce
- Unify
[7.5] - 70 minutes is a lot of funk, but this is pretty slick.
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Cosmic Putrefaction
- Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
[7.5] - Has clear OSDM moments, but some of the use of melodic or clean tones elevates it above similar albums.
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271.
Andromida
- Wrath Of The Vanguard
[7.5] - Synth/electronic-heavy instru-djent, sounds cool, particularly in its more synthwave moments.
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272.
Lords Of The Trident
- The Offering
[7.5] - Nicely melodic USPM-leaning heavy metal sound with great vocals and solid solos.
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275.
Gardenjia
- Invictvs
[7.5] - Chaotic, maddening disso-black/death.
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276.
High Pulp
- Pursuit Of Ends
[7.5] - Cool jazz fusion album with nice electronics and soloing.
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277.
Vile Creature
- A Hymn Of Loss And Hope [Collaboration]
[7.5] - Grim single-song drone doom with a brief piano interlude; it does the job, but most of it is just plodding feedback.
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278.
Blue States
- World Contact Day
[7.5] - Soothing yet slightly peculiar, I'm not quite sure what this is classed as but I enjoy it and the the way the vocals float around these songs.
|
279.
Heidra
- To Hell Or Kingdom Come
[7.5] - Quite a nice album with an array of heavy, power, melodeath and folk influences nicely coalescing.
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280.
Billy Howerdel
- What Normal Was
[7.5] - Really pleasant moody synthpop in the vein of recent Ulver albums.
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281.
Divided By Design
- Irretraceable Steps
[7.5] - Nice upbeat instru-prog record; there's some djent here, but it feels more shreddy/Dream Theater-y than other albums in this field.
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283.
This White Mountain
- The Final Sorrow
[7.5] - Black metal with melodic inclinations, black n' roll sections, and some solid lead guitar work.
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284.
Zela Margossian Quintent
- The Road
[7.5] - Nice mellow jazz sound.
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285.
The Sun Burns Bright
- A Hollow World
[7.5] - It's very conventional post-rock, but it sounds good.
|
286.
Soulsplitter
- Connection
[7.5] - Has a bit too much of early Haken in the sound to my current liking, but it's a good modern prog album, not especially heavy but with some djenty passages as well as more conventional prog-metal, and has some nice lead guitar passages as well as smooth vocals.
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288.
Primitive Man
- Insurmountable
[7.5] - Malevolent long-form sludge doom with a bit of ambient noise in there too; pretty chunky effort.
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289.
Dessication
- Cold Dead Earth
[7.5] - Respectable doomy black metal debut.
|
291.
Pact
- God Only Knows
[7.5] - A good blast of intense and noisy black metal that uses dissonance well while also shining well in more atmospheric/melodic moments.
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292.
Vein.fm
- This World Is Going To Ruin You
[7.5] - A solid continuation of the hardcore aggression/nu metal groove fusion from the debut album, one that is very abrasive while still have a solid alt-metal sense of groove and punch.
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293.
Breaths
- Though Life Has Turned Out Nothing Like I Imagined, It Is Far Better Than I Could Have Dreamt
[7.5] - Blackgaze/post-metal mesh, prefer it when it's closer to the latter (e.g. The Tormented).
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295.
Dark Millennium
- Acid River
[7.5] - Eclectic proggy, stonery, sludgy, deathy, doomy album, has quite a few cool moments but isn't always quite as compelling as I'd like it to be - manages to fit in some nice and interesting melodic moments though.
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296.
Marillion
- An Hour Before It's Dark
[7.5] - Band still sounds good, particularly Hoggarth's vocals; their mellow prog sound is a lot more enduring than some other classic prog rock groups.
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297.
Fireproven
- Epilogue
[7.5] - Decent melodeath-y prog record with good clean femme/growled vocal trade-off.
|
298.
Depressed Mode
- Decade Of Silence
[7.5] - Bit overlong, but I like this funeral-ish symphonic doom sound.
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299.
Hollow Front
- The Price Of Dreaming
[7.5] - Typical but catchy djenty metalcore.
|
300.
Downfall Of Mankind
- Vile Birth
[7.5] - Intense deathcore with Lorna Shore-inspired symphonic inclinations.
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301.
Michael Romeo
- War Of The Worlds, Pt. 2
[7.5] - It's rather good, but the vocalist has such a Russell Allen tone that it just sounds like a BTEC Symphony X.
|
302.
Dark Funeral
- We Are The Apocalypse
[7.5] - Solid melodic-tinged BM rampage, but gets a bit repetitive before it's over.
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303.
Artificial Astronaut
- Deep Black Out
[7.5] - Neat metal-tinged heavy rock album with clear 'Download alt' influence to it.
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304.
Lastryko
- Sesje
[7.5] - Cool, mellow psychedelic space rock journey.
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305.
This Is Oblivion
- This Is Oblivion
[7.5] - Cool dark trippy electronic stuff.
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306.
Esoctrilihum
- Consecration Of The Spiritüs Flesh
[7.5] - Good, but missing the unbound creativity that made Eternity of Shaog so impressive.
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307.
Von Hertzen Brothers
- Red Alert In The Blue Forest
[7.5] - Quite emotional and well-made artsy prog rock album, albeit one that does drag along at times.
|
308.
Devil Master
- Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
[7.5] - Blackened punk, works pretty well, but not quite my thing.
|
309.
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311.
Deadscape
- Of The Deepest Shade
[7.5] - Decent melodeath debut, takes cues from CoB extreme power and folky Finnish melodeath.
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312.
Emmeleia
- III
[7.5] - Rudimentary but relatively compelling doomy atmo-black record.
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313.
SOM
- The Shape Of Everything
[7.5] - Fuzzy heavy shoegaze with very husky vocals.
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315.
Dance With The Dead
- Driven To Madness
[7.5] - Very fun metal-oriented darksynth.
|
317.
Bekëth Nexëhmü
- De Dunklas Sorgeakt (Ett Nordiskt Afvsked...)
[7.5] - Solid but overlong lowish-fi atmo-black.
|
319.
Helms Alee
- Keep This Be The Way
[7.5] - This band remains in the good-but-not-great tier with this album.
|
320.
Portal-Hex
- A Decay In Gray Matter
[7.5] - An instrumental 'trap metal' record that leans closer to metal than most albums with that tag, while still getting lots of use out of trap beats.
|
321.
Lalu
- Paint The Sky
[7.5] - Self-described by Lalu as 'Yes metal', it has that upbeat charm of Yes in the form of dad prog-metal songs, with Damian Wilson doing a good job on vocals.
|
323.
Golgothan Remains
- Adorned In Ruin
[7.5] - Dirty semi-dissonant, occasionally atmospheric death metal with a decent amount going for it.
|
324.
WAIT
- The End Of Noise
[7.5] - Oddball djent/prog album seemingly a long time in the making, mainly a cleaner prog sound but occasionally goes harder.
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325.
Autumn's Tomb
- The Raven's Lament
[7.5] - Cool black metal debut EP.
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326.
Turpentine Valley
- Alder
[7.5] - Good, satisfying heavy instrumental post-rock sound.
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327.
Tangerine Dream
- Raum
[7.5] - Pleasant and expansive ambient electronic record.
|
328.
Urushiol
- Pools Of Green Fire
[7.5] - Mad, chaotic death metal with plenty of ventures into the weird and avant-garde; can't say I like listening to it, though.
|
329.
Famyne
- II: The Ground Below
[7.5] - Solid doom release with occasionally Marmite vocals but generally nice vocal melodies and solid riffs.
|
330.
Pure Wrath
- Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
[7.5] - Nice pagan-y atmo-black that can be quite aggressive at times.
|
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331.
Desolate Grave
- Det Sista Steget
[7.5] - Cool symphonic death/doom debut record.
|
332.
Novarupta
- Carrion Movements
[7.5] - Definite improvement on the previous Novarupta albums, a bit more substance and emotional depth to it.
|
333.
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335.
Katharos
- Of Lineages Long Forgotten
[7.5] - Rudimentary but well-produced symphonic black metal that clearly likes Emperor.
|
336.
Sabaton
- The War To End All Wars
[7.5] - I have to be honest, I didn't hate this - I even liked a couple of the songs (Unkillable Soldier and Valley Of Death).
|
337.
The Troops Of Doom
- Antichrist Reborn
[7.5] - Gnarly death-thrash with some strong riffs amidst a lot of low-end churn.
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338.
Hollie Cook
- Happy Hour
[7.5] - Neat reggae/RnB/synthpop sound.
|
339.
Cold Night For Alligators
- The Hindsight Notes
[7.5] - Light on the djent, more focused towards emotional melodic singing and accessible alt/prog instrumentation; generally sounds good, if not completely clicking.
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340.
Hello Meteor
- Comfortable Loneliness
[7.5] - Mellow and somewhat evocative chillwave album.
|
341.
Dawn Of Solace
- Flames Of Perdition
[7.5] - Starts off strong; drops off a bit later, but still has some very nice melodies littered throughout.
|
342.
Obscurcis Romancia
- The Bringer Of Light
[7.5] - Suitably flamboyant and energetic symphonic black metal.
|
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343.
Bonobo
- Fragments
[7.5] - I find Bonobo a bit hit and miss, and that remains, but it's generally very likeable.
|
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345.
Thomas Giles
- Feel Nothing
[7.5] - Nice little electronic EP with a blast of BTBAM at the end.
|
346.
Vorga
- Striving Toward Oblivion
[7.5] - Straightforward, no-nonsense, slightly melodic black metal debut.
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349.
Thy Kingdom Will Burn
- The Void And The Vengeance
[7.0] - The backing instrumentation for these melodeath songs is rather good, but the hoarse harsh vocals and flat sung vocals let it down a bit.
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350.
Sound Of Ceres
- Emerald Sea
[7.0] - Dreamy art-pop.
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354.
Fjara
- Kuušiveneh
[7.0] - Very pleasant Nordic acoustic folk EP.
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355.
Einvigi
- Yö Kulje Kanssani
[7.0] - Rather Alcest-y sound, it's a pleasant one and some of the folkier melodies that appear elevate it a bit as well.
|
356.
Al-Namrood
- Worship The Degenerate
[7.0] - No-frills, sharp-edged black metal, but the production has improved since the last album and features some cool little features, such as the Arabic influences early in Guerillas.
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357.
Astodan
- Évora
[7.0] - Decently moving heavier post-rock.
|
358.
Seven Kingdoms
- Zenith
[7.0] - Vocals are still great and there's some exciting moments here, but a few too many moments that go awry.
|
359.
Askeesi
- Genetic Grief
[7.0] - A rather solid overtly melodic atmo-black record, although 83 minutes is a bit excessive; it's not Trisagion.
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364.
Deadlife
- Tortured Waters
[7.0]
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367.
Hällas
- Isle Of Wisdom
[7.0] - A good retro-prog/hard rock album, although there's times when the vocalist gripes me a bit.
|
371.
Concilivm
- A Monument In Darkness
[7.0] - Somewhat OSDM but more cavernous and doomy, making it more interesting than OSDM worship.
|
372.
Dreamtale
- Everlasting Flame
[7.0] - Memorably hooky, fully energetic and not excessively cheesy, this is pretty solid on the power metal front, but is too long.
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373.
RLYR
- RLYR
[7.0]
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374.
Iron Griffin
- Storm Of Magic
[7.0] - Very retro production on this heavy/doom album, but the prog and folk influences give it a fairly distinctive feel.
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375.
And So I Watch You From Afar
- Jettison
[7.0] - It's nice post-rock, but on the lighter and less emotionally resonant side compared to a Maybeshewill.
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376.
Nightrage
- Abyss Rising
[7.0] - Generic NWOAHM-leaning Gothenburg metal, but hooky with some solid songs.
|
377.
Thumos
- The Republic
[7.0] - Rough around the edges, but this instrumental blackened post- album sounds easily different to most instru-post debuts these days.
|
378.
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380.
Aquarian
- Mutations I: Death, Taxes & Hanger
[7.0] - Cool dnb/IDM EP project.
|
381.
Saphath
- Ascension Of The Dark Prophet
[7.0] - Enjoyable gothic- and black-tinged melodeath slightly hindered by subpar clean vocals.
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382.
El Ten Eleven
- New Year's Eve
[7.0] - Similar energy to Aiming For Enrike, but more a post-rock format.
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385.
Coheed & Cambria
- Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind
[7.0] - Underwheming pop-focused follow-up to what was the band's best album in over a decade. Ends with a few bangers tho.
|
386.
Nechochwen
- Kanawha Black
[7.0] - The folk/black combination works well, but this wasn't as impactful as I'd hope.
|
387.
Unlucky Morpheus
- Evolution
[7.0] - Bit too 'turned to 11' at times, but the anime soundtrack power metal sound is fun.
|
388.
Diablo
- When All The Rivers Are Silent
[7.0] - The alt bits are a bit offputting, but the proggier/melodeathy parts sound good.
|
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390.
VRSTY
- Welcome Home
[7.0]
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391.
Void Dancer
- Prone Burial
[7.0] - Decent but forgettable proggy -core release; The Unread Palm is the obvious highlight.
|
392.
Dol Theeta
- Monad
[7.0] - Quite interesting proggy operatic/symphonic album, albeit a bit flat on the metal production.
|
394.
Xaoc
- Proxime Mortis
[7.0] - Technically inclined death metal with lots of rage but not much to latch onto.
|
396.
The Gathering
- Beautiful Distortion
[7.0] - Has some nice songs, but lacks the highlights of Disclosure.
|
397.
Dead Head
- Slave Driver
[7.0] - Ballistic thrash rocketing by at full speed, with some decent riffs and solos.
|
399.
Eight Bells
- Legacy Of Ruin
[7.0] - A bit of a 'weird for weird's sake' type of album, but one that does deliver in parts, particularly when it goes closer to a Dreadnought-style sound.
|
400.
Bekor Qilish
- Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism
[7.0] - Avant-garde instrumental insanity with a few too little moments that offer more than just technical chaos.
|
402.
Decapitated
- Cancer Culture
[7.0] - Pretty decent groove/death metal with some tasty parts, albeit with some irritating moments too.
|
403.
The Chasm
- The Scars Of A Lost Reflective Shadow
[7.0] - Fairly classic-sounding death metal album with some cool riffs and melodic hints that lift it above average.
|
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404.
Beyond The Structure
- Scrutiny
[7.0] - Decent proggy/techy death metal effort.
|
405.
Black Oath
- Emeth Truth And Death
[7.0] - Fairly classic doom sound, but with a bit more appeal to me than a lot of the retro stuff.
|
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406.
Pjusk
- Sentrifuge
[7.0] - Soothing, mellow ambient electronic album with just enough substance to avoid becoming too much of a drag.
|
407.
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408.
Coma Hole
- Coma Hole
[7.0]
|
411.
Elegeion
- Plight Of The Heretic
[7.0] - Fairly good doom with beauty/beast vocals and a nice atmosphere.
|
413.
Crown Compass
- The Drought
[7.0] - Thrashy prog supergroup debut that has its share of promising moments, but also enough rough edges to work on with future records.
|
414.
Thou
- Norco Original Soundtrack
[7.0] - Bit of a weird combination to have 80% mellow ambient and electronica and then a bunch of Thou songs at the end, but both parts of this split are decent.
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415.
Melt Yourself Down
- Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
[7.0]
|
420.
Treat
- The Endgame
[7.0] - Basically Stratovarius/Avantasia making arena rock, it means it's more likeable than a lot of arena rock due to the power metal-ish layer of cheese on top.
|
421.
Mountaineer
- Giving Up The Ghost
[7.0] - Nice pleasant gaze-y/post- sound, but I don't find the vocals fit that well with it at times.
|
422.
Coffin Nail
- Years Of Lead
[7.0] - Straight-up grindcore, but on the more enjoyable end of the spectrum.
|
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423.
Elektro Guzzi
- Triangle
[7.0] - Nice little techno record.
|
424.
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426.
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427.
Darkmatter
- Project Darkmatter
[7.0] - Pretty fun nu metal/djent EP.
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428.
The Land Of Lucy
- Moksha
[7.0] - Decent tech-death effort.
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430.
Amalunga
- We Are Stardust, This Is Our Sound
[7.0] - Very standard instrumental post-rock, but the first couple of songs are rather good.
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431.
Lucida Dark
- Of Death, Of Love
[7.0]
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435.
Tome Of The Unreplenished
- Earthbound
[7.0] - Arrr, here be atmo-black; has some folky/pagan moments and nice melodies, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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436.
Mydreamfever
- Rough And Beautiful Place
[7.0] - Long-winded but peaceful ambient-oriented piano music.
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437.
Viande
- L'abime Dévore Les Âmes
[7.0] - Cavernous, dissonant and unpleasant death metal, but lacking a little something on top of that.
|
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438.
Skee Mask
- A
[7.0] - Decent compilation of techno tracks.
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439.
Purgatory
- Apotheosis Of Anti Light
[7.0] - Has a bit more to it than straight-up OSDM worship, and is more enjoyable as a result, even though it's fairly generic.
|
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440.
Oceans Of Illusion
- Unrecognizable
[7.0] - Generic but satisfying deathcore.
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441.
Hugar
- Rift
[7.0] - Dainty neoclassical post-rock, one that's a tad lightweight at times.
|
443.
Saxon
- Carpe Diem
[7.0] - For a 24th album, it's very impressive, even if it's not something I'm interested in.
|
444.
Moonlight Sorcery
- Piercing Through The Frozen Eternity
[7.0] - By-the-books but fun symph-tinged meloblack record.
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445.
Shores Of Elysium
- Plaguewrought
[7.0] - The keyboard parts are the best bit of this deathcore EP, they should expand more on them.
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447.
Pattern-Seeking Animals
- Only Passing Through
[7.0]
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448.
Abstracted
- Atma Conflux
[7.0] - Respectable thrashy prog-death debut with some nice melodic proggy moments and intense extreme complexity, but lacking a bit in terms of engaging material.
|
449.
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450.
Nite
- Voices Of The Kronian Moon
[7.0] - I can't tell if the whispered black metal vocals on this heavy metal album are genius or rubbish, but they're at least memorable one way or the other.
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451.
Ereb Altor
- Vargtimman
[7.0] - Sounds a bit like a blackened Tyr based on the vocals, or something Borknagar-y; found the more black-heavy songs more interesting.
|
453.
Spheric Universe Experience
- Back Home
[7.0] - Very classic-sounding prog/power album, has some genre excesses that detract but is generally solid.
|
455.
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456.
Candina
- Apparitions
[7.0] - Raw, impassioned post-hardcore/DSBM crossover.
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458.
An Evening Redness
- An Evening Redness
[7.0] - Blood Meridian-themed ambient record gos on a bit.
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459.
Collapsed Skull
- Eternity Maze
[7.0]
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460.
Sadness (USA)
- I
[7.0] - This guy is overly prolific considering the consistency in style, but he does make decent feels.
|
464.
Out Of The Mouth Of Graves
- Harbinger Uncerimonious
[7.0] - Sickening cacophony of death metal; 25 minutes is a short debut album, but it's a long time to suffer through this.
|
466.
Predatory Light
- Death And The Twilight Hours
[7.0] - Very retro-sounding heavy/black metal; considering I don't like first wave BM much, it's not surprising I'm not totally into this.
|
468.
Gutrectomy
- Manifestation Of Human Suffering
[7.0] - Unlike the symphonic deathcore, I'm not totally taken by slam/deathcore, but this album's pretty chonky.
|
469.
Black Fucking Cancer
- Procreate Inverse
[7.0] - Black metal with lots of venom, but doesn't quite grip me.
|
470.
Verikalpa
- Tunturihauta
[7.0] - Lots of energy and enthusiasm, if no real staying power beyond that.
|
473.
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474.
Runecaller
- Runecaller
[6.5] - Passingly enjoyable proggy stoner/sludge album, but one with room for improvement.
|
477.
Mattergy
- Primordial Wrath
[6.5] - Decent djenty prog-metal album with some cool, almost Placebo-y vocal inflections, but it has a bit too much 'technicality for technicality's sake' for my tastes.
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481.
Grafix
- Half-Life
[6.5] - Has a few Pendulum-style bangers, but a few too many tracks I don't dig.
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482.
Sealed
- Disciple
[6.5] - Decent Gothenburg-style metal with not enough hooks and a few iffy vocal bits.
|
483.
Saviour
- Shine & Fade
[6.5] - Djentcore very much in the vein of their compatriots in Polaris.
|
484.
Angel Nation
- Antares
[6.5] - Let down by a flat production, but I generally quite liked it; very Wishmaster-era Nightwish-influenced.
|
485.
Månegarm
- Ynglingaättens Öde
[6.5] - Has some rather nice folky melodies, but also too much that's pedestrian, and the vocals are a tad grating at times.
|
486.
Pharmacist
- Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds
[6.5] - Mostly nasty goregrind/death metal with some surprisingly melodic moments that pop up.
|
488.
Trick Or Treat
- Creepy Symphonies
[6.5] - Nice 80s Helloween-esque sound let down by a few iffy tracks.
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489.
Kuoleman Galleria
- Armon Loppu
[6.5] - Some nice melodies weaved in and good use of group singing, but overall not the most gripping meloblack release.
|
490.
Izthmi
- Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind
[6.5] - Promising prog-black metal sound, but one that's lacking solid moments to keep me engaged.
|
494.
Moonlight Haze
- Animus
[6.5] - Listenable accessible-sounding symphonic record, although not as interesting as something like Nocturna.
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495.
Pendejo SS
- The End Of The Beginning
[6.5] - Conventional angry grindcore with some decent riffs; the main standout feature is the more demented high-pitched style of one of the vocals.
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497.
Nekrogoblikon
- The Fundamental Slimes And Humours
[6.5] - Fairly fun but prone to being irritating.
|
498.
Disquiet
- Instigate To Annihilate
[6.5] - The thrash parts of this are pretty run-of-the-mill (particularly the Machine Head-inspired parts), but some of the more melodeath-y bits give it a bit more of an interesting dimension.
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499.
Chalk Hands
- Don't Think About Death
[6.5] - Fine but unremarkable post-hardcore.
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500.
Oar
- The Blood You Crave
[6.5] - Competent post-black debut, but lacking in a killer element beyond the builds, blasts and shrieks.
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501.
Seven Nines And Tens
- Over Opiated In A Forest O Whispering Speakers
[6.5] - Mixture of metalgaze, post-metal, alt rock, all with soporific vocals and a bit too little regular gripping material.
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503.
Sulphur Nurse
- Roopkund
[6.5]
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507.
Venator
- Echoes From The Gutter
[6.5] - Has some of the usual pitfalls of trad heavy, but also has its bright moments.
|
508.
Nostalghia
- Olvido
[6.5] - Rudimentary blackgaze/atmo-black with lots of bright guitars and Deafheaven shrieks; sounds nice.
|
509.
The Mist From The Mountains
- Monumental: The Temple Of Twilight
[6.5] - Nothing really noteworthy about this, but also fairly solid meloblack.
|
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510.
RGRSS
- A World Of Concern
[6.5] - Fairly substantial deathgrind effort.
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511.
Det Eviga Leendet
- Reverence
[6.5] - Generic semi-melodic lo-fi black metal, not much that lingers once you finish playing.
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512.
Ditch Organ
- A Rapid Flicker Of Light
[6.5] - Madcap 5-minute mathgrind EP.
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513.
Beleriand
- In The Book Of Life One Leaf Turned
[6.5] - Nice extensive use of keyboards in this otherwise relatively unremarkable atmo-black record.
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514.
Illuminated Void
- Illuminated Void
[6.5] - Fluctuatingly good space-themed dark ambient/electronic from one of the Sleestak guys.
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515.
Dream Widow
- Dream Widow
[6.5] - It's another respectable venture into metal from Dave Grohl, even if it's a bit of a 'jack of all trades' tracklist.
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516.
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517.
Crowbar
- Zero And Below
[6.5] - Quintessential-sounding Southern sludge, but doesn't quite have much to it beyond having the basics nailed down.
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518.
Wounded Soul
- Lost In Uncertainty
[6.5] - Very generic but pleasant blackgaze/atmo-black sound, with nice uplifting/sorrowful melodies and soundscapes.
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521.
Sasami
- Squeeze
[6.5] - Interesting pop/alt-rock/industrial fusion with a metal tinge, but I can't say I truly enjoy it.
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523.
HammerFall
- Hammer Of Dawn
[6.5] - Nothing bad, but not especially interesting; like a duller version of Deris-era Helloween.
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524.
Audrey Horne
- Devil's Bell
[6.5] - Perfectly decent hard rock, but also a bit boring and irritating at times.
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525.
Artisan
- The Stain Of Life
[6.5] - Promising proggy death-tinged thrash debut hampered by the vocals.
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526.
Ysyry Mollvün
- Ysyry Mollvün
[6.5] - Bit too lo-fi and basic for the style considering the packaging suggested something a bit more tribal, particularly based on the mentions of native instruments on the Bandcamp.
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527.
Voivod
- Synchro Anarchy
[6.5] - Yet another album that cements Voivod in the 'I appreciate what they're doing, but I don't like it' club.
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529.
Veonity
- Elements Of Power
[6.5] - Typical moderately bombastic Europower metal, neither too memorable nor too cheesy.
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530.
Thin / The Winds In The Trees
- Split
[6.5]
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534.
Nebula Orionis
- Ephemeral
[6.5] - Slightly lightweight Mesarthim-esque electronic (black) metal sound.
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537.
Krallice
- Crystalline Exhaustion
[6.5] - Impressive as they are compositionally, I just do not enjoy listening to this band.
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539.
Dead Sun Rising
- As Above, So Below
[6.5] - Respectable alt/grunge/post-metal debut with some nice moments, if it is a tad dour overall.
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540.
VoidCeremony
- At The Periphery Of Human Realms
[6.5] - Some enjoyable guitar soloing, but lies slightly in a no man's land between OSDM and tech-death that doesn't totally bring me in.
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542.
HRFTR
- Spectre
[6.5]
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544.
Bad Omens
- The Death Of Peace Of Mind
[6.0] - Maddeningly, can't remember quite who this reminds me of; it's a very saccharine metalcore sound, a bit too saccharine for me.
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545.
Black Matter Device
- Autonomous Weapons
[6.0] - Fairly exhausting mathcore release.
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549.
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550.
Winter In Eden
- Social Fake
[6.0] - Somewhat pleasant fem-fronted symphonic, but it's quite thin texturally, so it's impact is quite stunted, and the quality of the songs doesn't compensate.
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551.
Gnod
- Hexen Valley
[6.0]
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553.
Malthusian
- Time's Withering Shadow
[6.0] - The Suffering Hour tracks are good, but the Malthusian ones are a chore to get through.
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559.
As Within, So Without
- Salvation
[6.0]
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561.
Rings Of Saturn
- Rings Of Saturn
[6.0] - Electro-heavy trap-instru-deathcore, I don't hate it, but 30 minutes is already enough to get a bit boring.
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565.
Astral Tomb
- Soulgazer
[6.0] - Fairly unique avant-garde death metal, but quite irritating to listen to.
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568.
P.s.you'redead
- Sugar Rot
[6.0]
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572.
Excellent Enemies
- Interlocks
[6.0]
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574.
Battlelore
- The Return Of The Shadow
[5.5] - Competent songs, but flat production and anemic vocals.
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582.
Quantum Oscillations
- EX-word XD-SK2800VP Dictionary Japanese
[5.0]
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Make it your challenge this year to reach 1000 albums, I believe you can do it  and to make it more challenging, you could review all 1000 albums 
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Posts: 8629 Written by AndyMetalFreak on 05.01.2022 at 12:17 lol I think I'd need to quit my job/stop sleeping to manage that - 3 reviews a day!
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Go the exact opposite route. Only one new album a day.
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Where's Cult Of Luna? Should be on the top spot  But nice to see Aequorea and Animårum high up on the list. Two very good albums. And it seems that I have some other bands and albums to check out.
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Posts: 8629 Written by Nejde on 20.01.2022 at 20:49 Feel like I should probably wait to hear the album first :p
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Posts: 9599 Written by musclassia on 21.01.2022 at 00:17 Only a fool would let such puny things as not having heard the album stop them from rating/reviewing it.
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Posts: 1695 Written by musclassia on 21.01.2022 at 00:17 Two songs are already out. That should be enough  Also got tricked since Persefone's album isn't released yet. If you got a promo, that's cheating 
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Wow you've been busy! I haven't really been following this year's releases too closely yet. But that's about to change! Time to explore 
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We aren't even half way through the year yet and you are already half way to 1000 albums!  Alot of my discoveries this year are from searching through your list 
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Posts: 8629 Written by AndyMetalFreak on 01.06.2022 at 16:37 I want to see if I can manage to average 100 albums/month for the rest of the year, I'm ahead of the curve just about
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Posts: 6613 Written by musclassia on 01.06.2022 at 20:50 Your doing a great job, and also with your reviews, excellent work
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