Lists by musclassia
2026: Jan-Jun
Likely going to be a slower year than 2025, which was slower than 2024 but still had me checking out over 1000 albums - let's see if I can approach that total again.
| 1. | Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World |
| 2. | Miserere Luminis - Sidera |
| 3. | A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface |
| 4. | Elder - Through Zero |
| 5. | Weedpecker - V |
| + 404 more |
2025: Jan-Jun
| 1. | Decline Of The I - Wilhelm |
| 2. | Pothamus - Abur |
| 3. | Symbiotic Growth - Beyond The Sleepless Aether |
| 4. | Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail |
| 5. | Fallujah - Xenotaph |
| + 562 more |
2023: Jan-Jun
Same deal as always - scenes if I somehow manage to break the 1200-album record I hit last year
| 1. | Sermon - Of Golden Verse |
| 2. | Ne Obliviscaris - Exul |
| 3. | Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent |
| 4. | Enslaved - Heimdal |
| 5. | Moonreich - Amer |
| + 729 more |
Metal In The Time Of 2014
I doubt I'll have the time to sample enough music to match the 201 albums I covered in 2013, but hopefully I'll be able to listen to a fair few things and pass on me ol' thoughts.
| 1. | Sleepmakeswaves - Love Of Cartography |
| 2. | Infestus - The Reflecting Void |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere |
| 4. | Ortega - Crows |
| 5. | Dirge - Hyperion |
| + 93 more |
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…
| 1. | Persefone - Metanoia |
| 2. | Hath - All That Was Promised |
| 3. | Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| 4. | Playgrounded - The Death Of Death |
| 5. | Kardashev - Liminal Rite |
| + 580 more |
2024: Jan-Jun
Hoping to not beat last year's total albums, but to still find the good stuff this year.
| 1. | Vulgaris - Seat Of The Fire |
| 2. | Dvne - Voidkind |
| 3. | Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I |
| 4. | Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall |
| 5. | Horseburner - Voice Of Storms |
| + 617 more |
2025: Jul-Dec
What better way to celebrate surviving up to the halfway mark of 2025 than making another 'things I've listened to' list.
| 1. | Centuries Of Decay - A Monument To Oblivion |
| 2. | Psychonaut - World Maker |
| 3. | Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return |
| 4. | Farseer (USA) - Portals To Cosmic Womb |
| 5. | Trudger - Void Quest |
| + 474 more |
150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019
I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters…
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 3. | Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud |
| 4. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 5. | Cult Of Luna - Vertikal |
| + 145 more |
2022: Jul-Dec
Fell just shy of 100 albums per month for the first half of the year, I imagine I won't be matching that but let's try to get to a full 1000 albums for the year at least.
| 1. | Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality |
| 2. | Disillusion - Ayam |
| 3. | An Abstract Illusion - Woe |
| 4. | Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain |
| 5. | Wake - Thought Form Descent |
| + 599 more |
2021: Jan-Jun
After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging,…
| 1. | Vulgaris - Asundre |
| 2. | Dvne - Etemen Ænka |
| 3. | Heliocentric - Ishmael |
| 4. | Decline Of The I - Johannes |
| 5. | Dordeduh - Har |
| + 468 more |
2021: Jul-Dec
At around 450 album, I've been averaging something like 75 new albums per month since the start of 2021, not to mention albums I only listen to 1-2 songs of before moving on. It's been intense,…
| 1. | Between The Buried And Me - Colors II |
| 2. | Year Of No Light - Consolamentum |
| 3. | Be'lakor - Coherence |
| 4. | LLNN - Unmaker |
| 5. | Spaceslug - Memorial |
| + 398 more |
2023: Jul-Dec
I reckon 735 albums in the first 6 months of this year is a 6-month record I will never match, but let's see how many I get through in Q3 and Q4
| 1. | Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion |
| 2. | Meridian Sun - The Curse |
| 3. | The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction |
| 4. | Earthside - Let The Truth Speak |
| 5. | Wayfarer - American Gothic |
| + 621 more |
Current Top 100, 5 Years On
Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 3. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 4. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 5. | Protest The Hero - Kezia |
| + 126 more |
2020: Jan-Jun
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm not broke yet.
Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries.
I also gave…
Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries.
I also gave…
| 1. | Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man |
| 2. | Elder - Omens |
| 3. | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Ascension |
| 4. | Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea |
| 5. | Barishi - Old Smoke |
| + 304 more |