|
Let Us Prey - The Saint of Killers
Independent
Thrash/Power Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Absolute Darkness - Future Imperfect
Independent
Death/Thrash Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Anthology - Angel's Revenge
Independent
Symphonic/Melodic Power Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Sonata Arctica - The Ninth Hour
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Avantgarde Music
Doom/Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Kratos - Arlechino
Inverse Records
Symphonic/Dark/Gothic Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Imperium Dekadenz - Dis Manibvs
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Sleep of Monsters - Poison Garden
Svart Records
Goth/Progressive Occult Rock
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia
Broken Limbs Recordings
Melodic/Folk/Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Riotous Indignation - Violentus Musicae (EP)
Repel Music Distribution
Hardcore/Thrash Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Church Of Misery - And Then There Were None...
Rise Above
Stoner/Doom Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Palace of Worms - The Ladder
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Barbarian - Cult of the Empty Grave
Hells Headbangers
Speed/Thrash/Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Talmud Beach - Chief
Svart Records
Blues/Rock
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Sixth Dimension - Trauma
Independent
Thrash Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ice War - Dream Spirit
Independent
Heavy Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Fuath - I
Fortriu Productions
Atmospheric Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Aggelos - Silentium
Rottweiler Records
Gothic/Doom Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Voidnaga - MMXVI
Iron Bonehead Productions
Black/Death/Doom Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Eleventh Hour - Memory of a Lifetime Journey
Independent
Progressive/Power Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Atrament - Eternal Downfall
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened Death/Crust Punk
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade
Spinefarm Records
Progressive Metal/Post-Hardcore
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Martriden - Cold and the Silence
Independent
Progressive/Melodic Death/Black Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
|
Abbath - Abbath
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Zyphoyd - Three Days of War
Independent
Progressive Thrash/Death
|
no quote
|
|
|
Belphegor - Goatreich - Fleshcult
Napalm Records
Black/Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Pergana - The Visit
Independent
Symphonic/Rock/Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Stormhammer - Echoes of a Lost Paradise
Massacre Records
Heavy/Power Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Skald in Veum - 1260 Days
Rottweiler Records
Unblack Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
SubMine - This Won't End Well
Gomek Records
Doom/Death Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Black Trip (SWE) - Shadowline
Steamhammer/SPV
Heavy Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Absolutist - Traverse
Broken Limbs Recordings
Crust/Punk/Hardcore
|
no quote
|
|
|
Insane Devotion - Infidel
Independent
Symphonic Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Cape of Bats - Violent Occultism
Broken Limbs Recordings
Punk/Black/Thrash Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Human Bodies / Leather Chalice - Split
Broken Limbs Recordings
Post-Punk/Black Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Doomsday Hymn - Mene Tequel Ufarsim
Rottweiler Records
Groove/Thrash/Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Sideburn (SWE) - Evil or Divine
Metalville
Hard Rock
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Corpspazm - Corpspazm
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black Metal/Crust Punk
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ad Nauseum - Ad Nauseum
Broken Limbs Recordings
Sludge/Doom Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ghost - Meliora
Loma Vista Recordings
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Wolfheart - Shadow World
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Set Before Us - Voyagers
Record Union
Metalcore
|
no quote
|
|
|
Archer - Culling the Weak
Metalville
Hard Rock/Melodic Heavy Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Nuclear - Formula for Anarchy
Candlelight Records
Thrash Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Lindemann - Skills in Pills
Warner Music
Industrial/Rock/Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Nightslug - Loathe
Broken Limbs Recordings
Sludge Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
Broken Limbs Recordings
Black/Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Mist of Misery - Temple of Stilled Voices
Independent
Symphonic Black Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
House Of Lords - Indestructible
Frontiers Records
Hard Rock/Glam Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
My Sleeping Karma - Moksha
Napalm Records
Instrumental/Psychedelic Rock
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Thunder Rising - Sole Freedom
Scarlet Records
Hard Rock
|
no quote
|
|
|
Vargnatt - Grausammler
Eisenwald
Depressive Black Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Jarun - Pod niebem utkanym z popiolu
Independent
Progressive Black/Folk Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Eschaton - Sentinel Apocalypse
Unique Leader Records
Technical Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Withering Soul - Adverse Portrait
Mortal Music
Melodic Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Antiversum - Total Vacuum
Invictus Productions
Black/Death Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Taken by the Sun - Taken by the Sun
Independent
Post-Metal/Doom/Stoner
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
The Inspector Cluzo - Gasconha Rocks
Suicidal Records
Groove/Fusion/Rock
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Occult 45 - Human Abhorrence
Broken Limbs Recordings
Grindcore/Sludge
|
no quote
|
|
|
Battleaxe - Power from the Universe
Steamhammer/SPV
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Mortals / Repellers - Split
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened/Crust/Sludge/Thrash
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ramlord - S/T
Broken Limbs Recordings
Blackened Crust
|
no quote
|
|
|
Gloson - Yearwalker
Independent
Sludge/Doom/Progressive Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Harrow - Fallow Fields
Broken Limbs Recordings
Folk/Black Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Sovereign - Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice
Broken Limbs Recordings
Thrash/Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Wolfheart - Winterborn
Independent
Melodic Death Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Agatha - Gravis Atque Gravior
Chaos Rural Records
Sludge/Doom/Punk
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Negura Bunget - Tau
Lupus Lounge
Progressive/Folk/Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Dethfox - Natural Media Teleforce
Chaos Rural Records
Anarcho/Post-Punk
|
no quote
|
|
|
Spook the Horses - Rainmaker
Self-released
Post-Hardcore/Atmospheric Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Black Cilice - Mysteries
Iron Bonehead Productions
Black Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Alpha Tiger - iDentity
Steamhammer
Power/Heavy Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Izah - Sistere
Nordvis Produktion
Atmospheric Sludge Metal/Post-Rock
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Caïna - Setter of Unseen Snares
Broken Limbs Recordings
Progressive/Post-Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Zero Down - No Limit to the Evil
Minotauro Records
Heavy Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
The Flight of Sleipnir - V.
Napalm Records
Stoner/Folk/Doom Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Relapse Records
Death Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
|
Sólstafir - Ótta
Season Of Mist
Rock/Post-Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Sol Invictus - Once Upon a Time
Tursa
Rock/Neofolk
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Season Of Mist
Black Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
|
Soen - Tellurian
Spinefarm Records
Progressive/Post-Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Inner Shrine - Pulsar
BakerTeam Records
Gothic/Symphonic Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Moon - The Nine Gates
Schattenkult Produktionen
Atmospheric/Depressive/Black Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Candlelight Records
Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Bauda - Euphoria…of Flesh, Men and the Great Escape
A Sad Sadness Song
Atmospheric/Post-Rock
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - Virus
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
Iron Pegasus Records
Black/Thrash Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ereb Altor - Gastrike
Napalm Records
Viking/Doom/Black Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Chaos Moon - Resurrection Extract
I, Voidhanger Records
Atmospheric/Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Nuclear Blast
Death/Thrash Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Dust Bolt - Awake the Riot
Napalm Records
Thrash Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
Dark Descent Records
Black/Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Hesperia - Spiritvs Italicvs - Aeneidos Metalli Apotheosis pars III
Sleaszy Rider Records
Atmospheric/Pagan/Black Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Pentakill - Smite and Ignite
Independent
Power Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
King of Asgard - Karg
Metal Blade
Melodic Death/Viking Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Dråpsnatt - Hymner till undergången (reissue)
Nordvis Produktion
Atmospheric/Black Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Metsatöll - Karjajuht
Spinefarm Records
Folk/Heavy Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Novembers Doom - Bled White
The End Records
Death/Doom Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Archspire - The Lucid Collective
Season Of Mist
Technical Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Iron Mask - Fifth Son of Winterdoom
AFM Records
Power/Heavy Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Acheron - Kult des Hasses
Listenable Records
Death Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Craving - At Dawn
Apostasy Records
Folk/Melodic Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Dark Legacy - Ad Extremum Epilogue
Black Vulture Records
Symphonic/Black/Death Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Brainstorm - Firesoul
AFM Records
Power/Heavy Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
|
Ormgård - Ormblot (Reissue)
Forever Plagued
Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Hatriot - Dawn of the New Centurion
Massacre Records
Thrash Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Ektomorf - Retribution
AFM Records
Groove/Nu-Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Battleaxe - Heavy Metal Sanctuary
Steamhammer
Heavy Metal/NWOBHM
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Van Canto - Dawn of the Brave
Napalm Records
A Capella/Power Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Silent Force - Rising From Ashes
AFM Records
Power/Melodic Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Behemoth - The Satanist
Nuclear Blast
Black/Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
The Unguided - Fragile Immortality
Napalm Records
Alternative/Melodic Death Metal
|
55 / 100
|
|
|
Portal (swe) - For All That is damned to Vanish
Vic Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Primal Fear - Delivering the Black
Frontiers Records
Heavy/Power Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Mantar - Death by Burning
Svart Records
Heavy/Doom/Black Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Khaos Aeon - Koenigreich
Self-released
Black/Death Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
|
Sólstafir - Í Blóði og Anda (reissue)
Season Of Mist
Post-Black/Progressive Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Legion of the Damned - Ravenous Plague
Napalm Records
Thrash Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Bathory - Bathory
Tyfon
Black Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
The Sword - Age of Winters
Kemado Records
Stoner/Heavy Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Septicflesh - Esoptron (reissue)
Season Of Mist
Gothic/Death Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
Phantom - Incendiary Serum
I, Voidhanger Records
Black/Doom Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Keep of Kalessin - Introspection – Single
Indie Recordings
Progressive/Melodic/Black Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Colosus - Blestem
Kaotoxin
Atmospheric/Black Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Eden's Curse - Symphony of Sin
AFM Records
Melodic Rock
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Funeral Circle - Funeral Circle
Shadow Kingdom Records
Doom Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Twilight of the Gods - Fire on the Mountain
Season Of Mist
Heavy Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Austere - Withering Illusions and Desolation
Eisenwald
Atmospheric/Black Metal
|
50 / 100
|
|
|
Abyssous - ...Smouldering
Iron Bonehead Productions
Death Metal
|
70 / 100
|
|
|
Gwar - Battle Maximus
Metal Blade
Thrash Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Týr - Valkyrja
Metal Blade
Power/Viking Metal
|
100 / 100
|
|
|
Imperium Dekadenz - Dämmerung der Szenarien
Funeral Industries
Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Device - Device
Warner Bros. Records
Industrial/Rock/Metal
|
60 / 100
|
|
|
DevilDriver - Winter Kills
Napalm Records
Groove/Death Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Nhor - Within the Darkness between the Starlight
Prophecy
Atmospheric/Doom/Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Mnemic - Mechanical Spin Phenomena
Nuclear Blast
Groove/Industrial Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Necronomicon(CAN) - Rise of the Elder Ones
Season Of Mist
Symphonic/Blackened Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Powerwolf - Preachers of the Night
Napalm Records
Power/Heavy Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
Sargeist - The Rebirth of a Cursed Existence
World Terror Committee
Black Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Ghost - Infestissumam
Sonet Records
Hard Rock/Heavy Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Chthonic - Bú-Tik
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Black Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Sirenia - Perils of the Deep Blue
Nuclear Blast
Gothic/Symphonic Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
|
Cerna - Restoring Life
Domestic Genocide
Instrumental/Post-Black Metal
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Freedom Call - Ages of Light
SPV
Power Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Holy Knights - Between Daylight and Pain
Scarlet Records
Symphonic/Power Metal
|
71 / 100
|
|
|
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Children Of Bodom - Halo of Blood
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Novembers Doom - Aphotic
The End Records
Progressive/Doom/Death Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
|
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Century Media
Melodic Death Metal
|
65 / 100
|
|
|
Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Napalm Records
Symphonic/Power Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
|
Fejd - Nagelfar
Napalm Records
Folk
|
75 / 100
|
|
|
Tristania - Darkest White
Napalm Records
Gothic Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
|
The Ocean - Pelagial
Metal Blade
Progressive/Sludge Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
|
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
New Renaissance
Black Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Aquilus - Griseus
A Sad Sadness Song
Atmospheric/Symphonic/Black Metal
|
97 / 100
|
|
|
Wolfchant - Embraced by Fire
Noise Art Records
Folk/Symphonic Metal
|
64 / 100
|
|
|
Aosoth - IV: Arrow in Heart
Agonia Records
Black Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - End of Disclosure
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Profound Lore Records
Doom Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
|
Emigrate - Emigrate
Motor Music
Industrial/Rock/Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
|
Therion - Vovin
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
|
Hatriot - Heroes of Origin
Massacre Records
Thrash Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
|
Immortal - Damned in Black
Osmose Productions
Black/Thrash Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
|
Spektr - Cypher
Agonia Records
Ambient/Experimental Black Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
|
Arkhan - Primal
Monkey
Death/Groove Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
|
Vesperian Sorrow - Stormwinds of Ages
The Path Less Traveled Records
Symphonic Black Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
|
Hatebreed - The Divinity of Purpose
Nuclear Blast
Hardcore
|
34 / 100
|
|
|
Kalmah - 12 Gauge
Spinefarm Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
|
Warseid - Where Fate Lies Unbound EP
Self-released
Symphonic/Folk/Black Metal
|
no quote
|
|
|
Apostasy - Devilution
Black Mark
Blackened Symphonic Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
|
Hypocrisy - Catch 22
Nuclear Blast
Melodic Death Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
|
Antestor - Omen
Bombworks Records
Symphonic/Unblack Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|