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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100

A list by
Moose
Created
September 13, 2015
Entries
100
Endorsements
25
Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…
1. Agalloch - The Mantle
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4. Aquilus - Griseus
5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
+ 95 more

Djent

A list by
Moose
Created
August 31, 2014
Entries
37
Endorsements
14
In order of release date, a list of what are in my opinion, the best Djent related albums. (I say 'djent related', because in many cases it is not their primary genre).
1. Meshuggah - Nothing
2. SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
3. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
4. SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
5. Textures - Drawing Circles
+ 32 more

Top Albums Of 2011

A list by
Moose
Created
March 29, 2011
Entries
41
Endorsements
12
My top albums of the year, roughly in order.
1. Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth
2. Vektor - Outer Isolation
3. Xerath - II
4. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
5. Havok - Time Is Up
+ 36 more

Favourite Album's Of 2014

A list by
Moose
Created
July 20, 2014
Entries
50
Endorsements
6
My favourite albums of 2014. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).
1. The Contortionist - Language
2. Rings Of Saturn - Lugal Ki En
3. Archspire - The Lucid Collective
4. Xerath - III
5. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
+ 45 more

Best Solo Guitarist Instrumental Albums (modern)

A list by
Moose
Created
September 25, 2011
Entries
9
Endorsements
5
A list of some of my favorite solo guitarist albums of the last decade or so (vaguely in order).

Feel free to send me suggestions! I can not get enough of this kind of music.

(Names such as Malmsteen,…
1. Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
2. Christian Muenzner - Timewarp
3. Guthrie Goven - Erotic Cakes
4. Paul Wardingham - Assimilate Regenerate
5. Lars Eric Mattsson - Aurora Borealis
+ 4 more

Favourite Album's Of 2013

A list by
Moose
Created
November 01, 2013
Entries
55
Endorsements
5
My favourite albums of 2013. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).
1. Deafheaven - Sunbather
2. Protest The Hero - Volition
3. TesseracT - Altered State
4. Ovid's Withering - Scryers Of The Ibis
5. Means End - The Didact
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Favorite Albums Of 2012

A list by
Moose
Created
February 16, 2012
Entries
63
Endorsements
3
My favorite albums of 2012.

*Now separated into a 'metal' and 'non-metal' section. (non-metal is at the bottom of the list).

Soon to be added: Clocks, Kiko Loureiro, Deathmole, Leonard…
1. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2. Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow
3. The Faceless - Autotheism
4. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
5. Save Us From the Archon - How Terrible, The Undergrowth's Jaws That Tangle
+ 58 more

2016

A list by
Moose
Created
July 04, 2016
Entries
72
Endorsements
2
Favourite albums of 2016 (including only those which I would rate 7+)
1. Vektor - Terminal Redux
2. Slice The Cake - Odyssey To The West
3. Animals As Leaders - The Madness Of Many
4. Gardenjia - Arkestral
5. Hypno5e - Shores Of The Abstract Line
+ 67 more

2021

A list by
Moose
Created
June 15, 2021
Entries
50
Endorsements
2
My favourite albums of 2021... Seemingly continuing the trend of containing more non-metal content each year.

Includes only albums rated 2.5/5 or higher.
1. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten
2. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten
3. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
4. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
5. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
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Favourite Album's Of The 00's

A list by
Moose
Created
October 21, 2011
Entries
53
Endorsements
2
My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more…
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Vektor - Black Future
3. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
4. SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
5. Protest The Hero - Fortress
+ 48 more

2017

A list by
Moose
Created
July 01, 2017
Entries
36
Endorsements
1
Favourite albums of 2017 (including only those which I would rate 7+)
1. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
2. Archspire - Relentless Mutation
3. Heretoir - The Circle
4. Converge - The Dusk In Us
5. Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar
+ 31 more

2018

A list by
Moose
Created
June 30, 2019
Entries
47
Endorsements
1
Favourite albums of 2018 (including only those which I would rate 7+)
1. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
2. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
3. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
4. Between The Buried And Me - Automata I
5. Berried Alive - Bearies Alive
+ 42 more

2020

A list by
Moose
Created
September 20, 2020
Entries
139
Endorsements
1
My favourite albums of 2020.

I've taken a new approach this year - switching to ratings out of 5, rounded to the nearest 0.5. Trying to rate everything to the nearest 0.1 was becoming a chore. Anything…
1. Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything
2. Hum - Inlet
3. Satyr - Locus
4. Deftones - Ohms
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
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2022

A list by
Moose
Created
September 04, 2022
Entries
35
Endorsements
1
Albums I have enjoyed the most in 2022, ranked approximately.

Including only albums I rated 3/5 or higher.
1. Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
2. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
3. Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
4. Venom Prison - Erebos
5. Venom Prison - Erebos
+ 30 more

Favourite Album's Of 2015

A list by
Moose
Created
December 06, 2015
Entries
40
Endorsements
1
My favourite albums of 2015. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).
1. Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega
2. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
3. Fear Factory - Genexus
4. So Hideous - Laurestine
5. I, Valiance - The Reject of Humanity
+ 35 more