Top Albums

2020

1 spirit possession - s/t

2 skáphe • skáphe3

3 múspellzheimr - s/t

4 haapoja • mullan keskeltä

5 dephosphorus - sublimation

6 abigor - totschläger (a saintslayer's songbook)

7 jessie ware - what's your pleasure?

8 kevel - mutatis mutandis

9 putrid - antichrist above

10 skeletal remains - the entombment of chaos

2019
1 deathspell omega - the furnaces of palingenesia
2 funereal presence - achatius
3 skáphe & wormlust - kosmískur hryllingur
4 sinmara - hvísl stjarnanna
5 vanum - ageless fire
6 ossuarium - living tomb
7 cloud rat - pollinator
8 brittany howard - jaime
9 misþyrming - algleymi
10 departure chandelier - antichrist rise to power

2018
1 faustcoven - in the shadow of doom
2 parquet courts - wide awaaaaake!
3 marc ribot's ceramic dog - yru still here?
4 lychgate - the contagion in nine steps
5 svartidauði - revelations of the red sword
6 obliteration - cenotaph obscure
7 funeral mist - hekatomb
8 nigredo - flesh torn-spirit pierced
9 adzalaan - into vermilion mirrors
10 mûspellzheimr - raukn

2017

1 metz - strange peace

2 aosoth - v: the inside scriptures

3 krallice - go be forgotten

4 black cilice - banished from time

5 dephosphorus - impossible orbits

6 grizzly bear - painted ruins

7 unearthly trance - stalking the ghost

8 the body & full of hell - ascending a mountain of heavy light

9 protomartyr - relatives in descent

10 john maus - screen memories

2016

1 skáphe - skáphe 2

2 leonard cohen - you want it darker

3 bölzer - hero

4 plebeian grandstand - false highs, true lows

5 minerva superduty - gorod zero

6 antaeus - condemnation

7 paul simon - stranger to stranger

8 innumerable forms - promo cs

9 iskandr - heilig land

10 eagulls - ullages

2015

1 misþyrming – söngvar elds og óreiðu

2 dødheimsgard - a umbra omega

3 abyssal - antikatastaseis

4 macabre omen - gods of war - at war

5 leviathan - scar sighted

6 sumac - the deal

7 jungbluth - lovecult

8 krallice - ygg hur

9 yautja - songs of lament

10 dispirit - separation (demo)

2014

1 dark circles - mmxiv

2 skáphe - s/t

3 morbus chron - sweven

4 as we draw - mirages

5 plebeian grandstand - lowgazers

6 protomartyr - under color of official right

7 dephosphorus - ravenous solemnity

8 cowards - world champions in male chastity

9 mac de marco - salad days

10 naðra - eitur

2013

1 ruined families - blank language

2 in solitude - sister

3 abyssal - novit enim dominus qui sunt eius

4 the howling wind - vortex

5 bölzer - aura

6 castevet - obsian

7 antediluvian - λόγος

8 fell voices - regnum saturni

9 culture abuse - the day dreams of nothing

10 beastmilk - climax

2012

1 tame impala - lonerism

2 swans - the seer

3 anhedonist - netherwards

4 dephosphorus - night sky transform

5 chairlift - something

6 xiu xiu - always

7 drawn and quartered - feeding hell’s furnace

8 the flaming lips and heady fwends - s/t

9 the howling wind - of babalon

10 aussitôt mort - nagykanizsa

2011

1 portrait - crimen laesae majestatis divinae

2 prurient - bermuda drain

3 krallice - diotima

4 graveyard - hisingen blues

5 hexvessel - dawnbearer

6 pj harvey - let england shake

7 tombs - path of totality

8 ulcerate - the destroyers of all

9 danava - hemisphere of shadows

10 disma - towards the megalith

2010

1 deathspell omega  - paracletus

2 castevet - mounds of ash

3 scorpion violente - uberschleiss

4 mike patton - mondo cane

5 dax riggs - say goodnight to the world

6 diocletian - war of all against all

7 burzum - belus

8 vasaeleth - crypt born and tethered to ruin

9 wild nothing - gemini

10 abscess - dawn of inhumanity

2009

1 converge - axe to fall

2 the chasm - farseeing the paranormal abysm

3 mastodon - crack the skye

4 kickback - no surrender

5 borgia - ecclesia

6 grizzly bear - veckatimest

7 astra - the weirding

8 franz ferdinand - tonight; franz ferdinand

9 cobalt - gin

10 doom - born like this

2008

1 leviathan - massive conspiracy against all life

2 cursed - three: architects of troubled sleep

3 dead congregation - graves of the archangels

4 angstridden - fuck humanity with pride

5 aura noir - hades rise

6 the one - i, master

7 virus - the black flux

8 fleet foxes - s/t

9 fight amp - hungry for nothing

10 danava - unonou

2007

1 the raveonettes - lust lust lust

2 deathspell omega - fas-ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum

3 nicole atkins - neptune city

4 cobalt - eater of birds

5 dødheimsgard - supervillain outcast

6 radiohead - in rainbows

7 witchcraft - the alchemist

8 ramesses - misanthropic alchemy

9 the howling wind - pestilence and peril

10 arctic monkeys - favourite worst nightmare

2006

1 battle of mice - a day of nights

2 amy winehouse - back to black

3 placebo - meds

4 black cobra - bestial

5 drawn and quartered - hail infernal darkness

6 θανάσης παπακωνσταντίνου - διάφανος

7 xiu xiu - the air force

8 repugnant - epitome of darkness

9 karnarium - deity of opposites

10 head control system - murder nature

2005

1 cursed - two

2 lurker of chalice - s/t

3 the mars volta - frances the mute

4 deathspell omega - kénôse

5 evoken - antithesis of light

6 dead congregation - purifying consecrated ground

7 extreme violence - ecstasy in pain

8 ramesses - the tomb (demo)

9 cave in - perfect pitch black

10 azaghal - codex antitheus

2004

1 unearthly trance - in the red

2 deathspell omega - si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice

3 aura noir - the merciless

4 lamented souls - the origins of misery

5 sonic youth - sonic nurse

6 the dillinger escape plan - miss machine

7 mastodon - leviathan

8 neurosis - the eye of every storm

9 arcade fire - funeral

10 uphill battle - wreck of nerves

2003

1 the mars volta - de-loused in the comatorium

2 cursed - one

3 unearthly trance - season of seance, science of silence

4 leviathan - the tenth sub level of suicide

5 radiohead - hail to the thief

6 darkspace - dark space i

7 cave in - antenna

8 inveracity - circle of perversion

9 the lord weird slough feg - traveller

10 placebo - sleeping with ghosts

2002

1 interpol - turn on the bright lights

2 the dillinger escape plan & mike patton - irony is a dead scene

3 red hot chili peppers - by the way

4 θανάσης παπακωνσταντίνου - αγρύπνια

5 antaeus - de principii evangelikum

6 queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf

7 down - ii: a bustle in your hedgerow

8 forgarður helvítis - gerningaveður

9 origin - informis infinitas inhumanitas

10 knut - challenger

2001

1 thørns - s/t

2 converge - jane doe

3 cavity - on the lam

4 discordance axis - the inalienable dreamless

5 akercocke - the goat of mendes

6 my dying bride - the dreadful hours

7 kaamos - curse of aeons

8 crowbar - sonic excess in its purest form

9 lovage - music to make love to your old lady by

10 milligram - hello motherfucker!

2000

1 weakling - dead as dreams

2 morbid angel - gateways to annihilation

3 mayhem - grand declaration of war

4 radiohead - kid a

5 θανάσης παπακωνσταντίνου - βραχνός προφήτης

6 shora - shaping the random

7 antaeus - cut your flesh and worship satan

8 cave in - jupiter

9 brodequin - instruments of torture

10 kickback - les 150 passions meurtrieres

1999

1 dødheimsgard - 666 international

2 mr. bungle - california

3 catharsis - passion

4 nevermore - dreaming neon black

5 satyricon - rebel extravaganza

6 spirit caravan - jug full sun

7 cavity - supercollider

8 τρύπες - μέσα στη νύχτα των άλλων

9 coalesce - 0:12 revolution in just listening

10 los natas - ciudad de brahman

1998

1 katatonia - discouraged ones

2 bruce dickinson - the chemical wedding

3 morbid angel - formulas fatal to the flesh

4 massive attack - mezzanine

5 fugazi - end hits

6 dødheimsgard - satanic art

7 the lord weird slough feg - twilight of the idols

8 queens of the stone age - s/t

9 nile - amongst the catacombs of nephren-ka

10 iron monkey - our problem

1997

1 radiohead - ok computer

2 arcturus - la masquerade infernale

3 kickback - forever war

4 mayhem - wolf’s lair abyss

5 ulver - nattens madrigal (aatte hymne til ulven i manden)

6 discordance axis - jou hou

7 his hero is gone - monuments to thieves

8 τα ξύλινα σπαθιά - μια ματιά σαν βροχή

9 nick cave and the bad seeds - the boatman’s call

10 electric wizard - come my fanatics

1996

1 tool - ænima

2 burzum - filosofem

3 eyehategod - dopesick

4 pantera - the great southern trendkill

5 integrity - humanity is the devil

6 the 3rd and the mortal - painting on glass

7 thorr’s hammer - dommedagsnatt

8 harvey milk - courtesy of good will toward men

9 acid bath - paegan terrorism tactics

10 darkthrone - goatlord

1995

1 in the woods - heart of the ages

2 ved buens ende - written in waters

3 the smashing pumpkins - mellon colie & the infinite sadness

4 ulver - bergtatt (et eeventyr i 5 capitler)

5 darkthrone - panzerfaust

6 suffocation - pierced from within

7 aura noir - dreams like deserts

8 beyond dawn - pity love

9 deadguy - fixation on a coworker

10 pulp - different class

1994

1 emperor - in the nightside eclipse

2 mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas

3 burzum - hvis lyset tar oss

4 pantera - far beyond driven

5 darkthrone - transilvanian hunger

6 pentagram - be forewarned

7 jeff buckley - grace

8 unwound - new plastic ideas

9 blur - parklife

10 disrupt - unrest

1993

1 nirvana - in utero

2 immortal - pure holocaust

3 entombed - wolverine blues

4 carcass - heartwork

5 disembowelment - transcendence into the peripheral

6 darkthrone - under a funeral moon

7 burzum - det som engang var

8 rotting christ - thy mighty contract

9 impaled nazarene - ugra-karma

10 earth crisis - firestorm

1992

1 darkthrone - a blaze in the northern sky

2 tiamat - clouds

3 immortal - diabolical fullmoon mysticism

4 incantation - onward to golgotha

5 flotsam and jetsam - no place for disgrace

6 extreme noise terror - phonophobia

7 volt thrower - the ivth crusade

8 the nation of ulysses - plays pretty for baby

9 tom waits - bone machine

10 death in june - but, what ends when the symbols shatter?

1991

1 autopsy - mental funeral

2 morbid angel - blessed are the sick

3 darkthrone - soulside journey

4 entombed - clandestine

5 mr. bungle - s/t

6 immolation - dawn of possession

7 suffocation - effigy of the forgotten

8 cathedral - forest of equilibrium

9 red hot chili peppers - bloodsugarsexmagik

10 massive attack - blue lines

1990

1 psychotic waltz - a social grace

2 nocturnus - the key

3 bathory - hammerheart

4 deicide - s/t

5 entombed - left hand path

6 megadeth - rust in peace

7 fugazi - repeater

8 merciless - the awakening

9 rorschach - remain sedate

10 sonic youth - goo

1989

1 watchtower - control and resistance

2 carcass - symphonies of sickness

3 faith no more - the real thing

4 godflesh - streetcleaner

5 pixies - doolittle

6 soundgarden - louder than love

7 minor threat - complete discography

8 angelo badalamenti - music from twin peaks

9 nirvana - bleach

10 de la soul - 3 feet high and rising

1988

1 sonic youth - daydream nation

2 carcass - reek of putrefaction

3 iron maiden - seventh son of a seventh son

4 pixies - surfer rosa

5 voivod - dimension hatröss

6 bathory - blood fire death

7 metallica - …and justice for all

8 talk talk - spirit of eden

9 king diamond - them

10 slayer - south of heaven

1987

1 celtic frost - into the pandemonium

2 king diamond - abigail

3 voivod - killing technology

4 loop - heaven’s end

5 sodom - persecution mania

6 the wipers - follow blind

7 τρύπες - πάρτυ στον 13ο όροφο

8 black - wonderful life

9 running wild - under jolly roger

10 big black - songs about fucking

1986

1 iron maiden - somewhere in time

2 voivod - rrroooaaarrr

3 destruction - eternal devastation

4 metallica - master of puppets

5 the smiths - the queen is dead

6 nick cave and the bad seeds - your funeral, my trial

7 talk talk - the colour of spring

8 slayer - reign in blood

9 dark angel - darkness descends

10 cryptic slaughter - convicted

1985

1 celtic frost - to mega therion

2 yngwie malmsteen’s rising force - marching out

3 pentagram - relentless

4 the fall - this nation’s saving grace

5 new order - low life

6 hüsker dü - new day rising

7 possessed - seven churches

8 bathory - the return

9 τρύπες - s/t

10 the smiths - meat is murder

1984

1 iron maiden - powerslave

2 sodom - in the sign of evil

3 running wild - gates to purgatory

4 mercyful fate - don’t break the oath

5 voivod - war and pain

6 black flag - my war

7 hüsker dü - zen arcade

8 jag panzer - ample destruction

9 metallica - ride the lightning

10 felt - the splendour of fear

1983

1 suicidal tendencies - s/t

2 warlord - deliver us

3 violent femmes - s/t

4 the chameleons - script of the bridge

5 jerry’s kids - is this my world

6 new order - power, corruption and lies

7 killing joke - fire dances

8 iron maiden - piece of mind

9 tom waits - swordfishtrombones

10 the faith - subject to change

1982

1 bad brains - s/t

2 christian death - only theatre of pain

3 grandmaster flash and the furious five - the message

4 23 skidoo - seven songs

5 the birthday party - junkyard

6 mission of burma - vs.

7 the fall - hex education hour

8 bauhaus - the sky’s gone out

9 discharge - hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing

10 jimmy smack - death or glory

1981

1 echo and the bunnymen - heaven up here

2 black flag - damaged

3 the wipers - youth of america

4 this heat - deceit

5 the durutti column - lc

6 marianne faithful - dangerous acquaintances

7 λένα πλάτωνος - σαμποτάζ

8 the sound - from the lions mouth

9 kraftwerk - computer world

10 grace jones - nightclubbing

1980

1 joy division - closer

2 the sound - jeopardy

3 david bowie - scary monsters

4 whitehouse - birth death experience

5 circle jerks - group sex

6 killing joke - s/t

7 talking heads - remain light

8 echo and the bunnymen - crocodiles

9 bauhaus - in the flat field

10 crass - the feeding of the 5,000

1979

1 joy division - unknown pleasures

2 gang of four - entertainment

3 the clash - london calling

4 throbbing gristle - 200 jazz funk greats

5 wire - 154

6 marianne faithful - broken english

7 cabaret voltaire - mix up

8 pink floyd - the wall

9 talking heads - fear of music

10 public image ltd. - metal box

1978

1 wire - chairs missing

2 devo - q: are we not men? a: we are devo!

3 pere ubu - the modern dance

4 jean luc-ponty - cosmic messenger

5 brian eno - ambient 1

6 popol vuh - nosferatu

7 ac/dc - powerage

8 the police - outlandos d’amour

9 παύλος σιδηρόπουλος & σπυριδούλα - φλου

10 blondie - parallel lines

1977

1 wire - pink flag

2 scorpions - taken by force

3 iggy pop - lust for life

4 david bowie - low

5 television - marquee moon

6 david bowie - heroes

7 jean luc-ponty - enigmatic ocean

8 kraftwerk - trans-europa express

9 talking heads - talking heads 77

10 the stranglers - rattus norvegicus

1976

1 led zeppelin - presence

2 scorpions - virgin killer

3 rush - 2112

4 dexter wansel - life on mars

5 max romeo & the upsetters - war ina babylon

6 erroll garner - gershwin and kern

7 michael hurley, the unholy modal rounders, jeffrey fredericks & the clamtones - have moicy!

8 the modern lovers - s/t

9 al stewart - year of the cat

10 ramones - s/t

1975

1 pink floyd - wish you were here

2 black sabbath - sabotage

3 scorpions - in trance

4 led zeppelin - physical graffiti

5 mike oldfield - ommadawn

6 brian eno - another green world

7 fela ransome kuti & africa 70 - expensive shit

8 brian eno - discreet music

9 bruce springsteen - born to run

10 patti smith - horses

1974

1 leonard cohen - new skin for the old ceremony

2 gong - you

3 brian eno - taking tiger mountain (by strategy)

4 neil young - on the beach

5 turiya alice coltrane - illuminations

6 gil-scott heron - winter in america

7 kraftwerk - autobahn

8 david bowie - diamond dogs

9 robert wyatt - rock bottom

10 brian eno - here come the warm jets

1973

1 black sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath

2 the wailers - catch a fire

3 stevie wonder - innervisions

4 herbie hancock - head hunters

5 roxy music - for your pleasure

6 led zeppelin - houses of the holy

7 billy cobham - spectrum

8 scott walker - any day now

9 fripp & eno - no pussyfooting

10 genesis - selling england by the pound

1972

1 black sabbath - vol 4

2 can - ege bamyasi

3 miles davis - on the corner

4 terry calier - what color is love

5 uriah heep - the magician’s birthday

6 david bowie - the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars

7 amon düül ii - wolf city

8 nick drake - pink moon

9 wicked lady - the axeman cometh

10 curtis mayfield - superfly ost

1971

1 led zeppelin - led zeppelin iv

2 the doors - l.a. woman

3 can - tago mago

4 leonard cohen - songs of love and hate

5 fraction - moon blood

6 serge gainsbourg - histoire de melody nelson

7 uriah heep - look at yourself

8 allen toussaint - toussaint

9 alice coltrane - universal consciousness

10 david bowie - hunky dory

1970

1 led zeppelin - led zeppelin iii

2 nick drake - bryter later

3 king crimson - lizard

4 howard tate - howard tate’s reaction

5 black sabbath - s/t

6 tim buckley - starsailor

7 the doors - morrison hotel

8 john lennon - plastic ono band

9 buddy miles - them changes

10 the velvet underground - loaded

1969

1 king crimson - in the court of crimson king

2 amon düül ii - phallus dei

3 nick drake - five leaves left

4 led zeppelin - led zeppelin ii

5 leonard cohen - songs from a room

6 sam gopal - escalator

7 tim buckley - blue afternoon

8 janis joplin - i got dem ol’ kozmic blues again mama!

9 the doors - the soft parade

10 led zeppelin - s/t

1968

1 the west coast pop art experimental band - volume 3: a child’s guide to good & evil

2 the lollipop shoppe - just colour

3 the monkees - head ost

4 pink floyd - a saucerful of secrets

5 miles davis - nefertiti

6 daxid axelrod - song of innocence

7 lee michaels - carnival of life

8 dr. john - gris gris

9 serge gainsbourg - initials b.b.

10 the doors - waiting for the sun

1967

1 the doors - strange days

2 pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn

3 leonard cohen - songs of leonard cohen

4 tim buckley - goodbye and hello

5 the west coast pop art experimental band - vol.2

6 captain beefheart and his magic band - safe as milk

7 the velvet underground & nico - s/t

8 the doors - s/t

9 duke ellington - far east suite

10 the west coast pop art experimental band - part one

1966

1 simon and garfunkel - parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme

2 wilson pickett - the exciting wilson pickett

3 howard tate - get it while you can

4 the beach boys - pet sounds

5 tim buckley - s/t

6 the kinks - face to face

7 donovan - sunshine superman

8 cecil taylor - unit structures

9 ike and tina - the soul of ike and tina

10 jacques brel - ces gens-là

1965

1 the beach boys - summer days

2 the beatles - help

3 the beatles - rubber soul

4 the byrds - turn turn turn

5 bob dylan - highway 61 revisited

6 phil ochs - i ain’t marching anymore

7 nina simone - pastel blues

8 the sonics - here are the sonics

9 the yardbirds - for your love

10 sun ra and his solar arkestra - the magic city