Lists by musclassia
2020: Jul-Dec
Just about finished the first half of the year without losing too much to the character limit; I have learnt to make these list descriptions increasingly pithy
| 1. | Enslaved - Utgard |
| 2. | Wills Dissolve - Echoes |
| 3. | Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence |
| 4. | Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers |
| 5. | Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II |
| + 464 more |
2024: Jul-Dec
With 600-odd albums across Q1 and Q2, I've gotten through marginally less than last year so far, let's see if I keep that up
| 1. | Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke |
| 2. | A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire |
| 3. | Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion |
| 4. | Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere |
| 5. | Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun |
| + 498 more |
2014 Cont.
Cos, y'know, same shiz different year. Ran out of space again so will post final album opinions in comments.
| 1. | Infestus - The Reflecting Void |
| 2. | Dirge - Hyperion |
| 3. | Nero Di Marte - Derivae |
| 4. | Steve Rothery - The Ghosts Of Pripyat |
| 5. | Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere |
| + 235 more |
2015: One O' Dem Best Of Lists (Jan-Jun)
Cos by this point it's almost mandatory. I've made a pretty slow start to the year but hopefully I'll start catching up soon enough.
| 1. | A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See |
| 2. | Maladie - ...Still... |
| 3. | Dekadent - Veritas |
| 4. | Sylosis - Dormant Heart |
| 5. | Marriages - Salome |
| + 126 more |
2016: Keeping Up With The Joneses (Jan-Jun)
For me more than you, as the sheer amount of music in the world has turned me into a goldfish as far as remembering what I've listened to and what I thought of it. However, if you find something cool…
| 1. | Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration] |
| 2. | Fallujah - Dreamless |
| 3. | Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika |
| 4. | Death Grips - The Bottomless Pit |
| 5. | Iamthemorning - Lighthouse |
| + 157 more |
Current Top 100 (subject To Change)
Moves up and down depending on mood, but top 25-30 usually the same in varying order
| 1. | Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age |
| 2. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 4. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 5. | In Flames - The Jester Race |
| + 95 more |
2017, Part 1: It's February Already?!?
Getting started on this later than usual
| 1. | Persefone - Aathma |
| 2. | Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite |
| 3. | Au-Dessus - End Of Chapter |
| 4. | Heretoir - The Circle |
| 5. | Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand |
| + 107 more |
2018: Let's Get It On! (Jan-Jun)
Actually getting onto this year relatively early, let's see what it's got in store for us all.
| 1. | Weedpecker - III |
| 2. | Amorphis - Queen Of Time |
| 3. | Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology |
| 4. | Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| 5. | Aviations - The Light Years |
| + 129 more |
Best Of The Year: 2023
With over 1300 albums to choose from, it's not easy to narrow down to a top 20. As far as the top albums go, I think this has been a bit of a weaker year than the last few, but there's been some…
| 1. | Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion |
| 2. | Sermon - Of Golden Verse |
| 3. | Ne Obliviscaris - Exul |
| 4. | The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction |
| 5. | Meridian Sun - The Curse |
| + 15 more |
Top 30 Of 2020: A Non-exhaustive Summary Of Some Of The Highlights Of The Lowlight Year
I don't think these are necessarily the best 30 albums of this year, but they're the ones that have I guess endured in my psyche and inspiried revisits more than most others. I was tempted to…
| 1. | Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man |
| 2. | Elder - Omens |
| 3. | Enslaved - Utgard |
| 4. | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension |
| 5. | Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea |
| + 25 more |
2010-2014: Top 100 Albums (WIP)
2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've…
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 3. | Protest The Hero - Volition |
| 4. | Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| 5. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| + 131 more |
Best Of The Year: 2025
Much like 2024, a year with a lot of very good albums, but few truly great ones - still the cream has risen to the top. I'm very confident on the albums in my top 10, if not necessarily that precise…
| 1. | Pothamus - Abur |
| 2. | Decline Of The I - Wilhelm |
| 3. | Farseer (USA) - Portals To Cosmic Womb |
| 4. | Centuries Of Decay - A Monument To Oblivion |
| 5. | Psychonaut - World Maker |
| + 20 more |
2019: The Curtain Call (Jan-Jun)
Cos Radu won't leave me alone
| 1. | Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Grandmother |
| 2. | Dreadnought - Emergence |
| 3. | Methadone Skies - Different Layers Of Fear |
| 4. | A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices |
| 5. | Cartographs - Wilt & Blossom |
| + 132 more |
Best Of The Year: 2021
Hitting somewhere within the region of 900 new albums that I've heard released in 2021, I've consumed a frankly ridiculous amount of music this year; I reckon things will return to a slightly…
| 1. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors II |
| 2. | Dvne - Etemen Ænka |
| 3. | Heliocentric - Ishmael |
| 4. | Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon |
| 5. | Spaceslug - Memorial |
| + 20 more |
2012: Favourite To Least
One of likely hundreds of these, more for self-enjoyment (or something) above anything, but if it helps someone find a good album/albums they wouldn't've otherwise heard I'll be happy.
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| 4. | Abigail Williams - Becoming |
| 5. | Enslaved - RIITIIR |
| + 102 more |