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*shels - Laurentian's Atoll - 9.25/10 [post-rock, atmospheric sludge metal]
*shels - Sea of the Dying Dhow - 9.25/10 [post-rock, atmospheric sludge metal]
Aeon - Rise to Dominate - 8/10 [death metal]
Aeon Spoke - s/t - 8/10 [rock, prog rock, alternative]
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go - 7.75/10 [prog rock, post-rock]
Akercocke - Antichrist - 8.5/10 [prog death metal]
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre Monde - 8/10 [shoegaze with black metal influences]
Alchemist - Tripsis - 8.25/10 [prog metal]
Amesoeurs - split with Valfunde - 6.25/10 [rock, shoegaze]
Amon Tobin - Foley Room - 9/10 [IDM, breakbeat]
Amorphis - Silent Waters - 8.5/10 [melodic/prog death]
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand - 9.5/10 [drone, shoegaze, experimental]
Antimatter - Leaving Eden - 8.5/10 [ambient rock, prog rock]
Arts the Beatdoctor - Transitions - 9/10 [hip hop]
Atavist And Nadja - 12012291920/1414101 - 6/10 [drone metal, ambient]
aussitôt mort - 6 Songs - 7/10 [screamo, hardcore]
The Austerity Program - Black Madonna - 8.25/10 [noise rock]
Autumn Tears - The Hallowing - 6.5/10 [classical, ambient]
Baroness - Red Album - 8.5/10 [sludge metal]
Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire - 6.5/10 [melodic/prog death metal]
Behold... the Arctopus - Skullgrid - 6.5/10 [prog metal]
Be'lakor - The Frail Tide - 8.5/10 [melodic/prog death metal]
Between the Buried and Me - Colors - 7/10 [prog metalcore]
Beyond Fallen - Mindfire - 7.5/10 [heavy metal]
the birds are spies, they report to the trees - 7" - 7/10 [screamo]
Blackfield - Blackfield II - 8/10 [prog rock]
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia - 5/10 [prog metal]
Blut aus Nord - Odinist – The Destruction of Reason by Illumination - 7.25/10 [black metal]
Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning - 7/10 [drone, noise, experimental]
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands - 7/10 [doom metal]
Canvas Solaris - Cortical Tectonics - 8.25/10 [prog metal]
Celeste - Nihiliste(s) - 8/10 [screamo, post-hardcore]
Circus Maximus - Isolate - 8.25/10 [prog metal]
Colbie Caillat - Coco - 8/10 [singer-songwriter]
Comadre - split with Trainwreck - 8/10 [screamo, post-hardcore, punk]
Cormorant - The Last Tree - 8.5/10 [melodic/prog death metal]
Countess - Blazing Flames of War - 8/10 [black metal]
Daniel Striped Tiger - Condition - 8.25/10 [screamo, post-hardcore]
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction - 7.5/10 [melodic death metal]
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. 8.25/10 [black metal]
Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love - 8.75/10 [blues-rock, alternative]
Deadsoul Tribe - A Lullaby for the Devil - 7.5/10 [prog metal]
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum 8.75/10 [black metal]
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient 6.25/10 [prog metal]
Do Androids dream of electric Sheep? - Snapshot Lamento - 8.25/10 [screamo]
Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast - 7.75/10 [industrial black metal]
Drawn and Quartered - Merciless Hammer of Lucifer - 7.5/10 [death metal]
Drudkh - Estrangement - 8.25/10 [black metal]
Eilera - Fusion - 7.5/10 [gothic/symphonic rock/metal]
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today - 8.5/10 [doom/stoner metal]
Elend - A World in Their Screams - 8/10 [industrial, experimental, symphonic]
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead - 8/10 [hip hop]
Eluvium - Jesu and Eluvium Split LP - 7.75/10 [drone]
Ensiferum - Victory Songs - 5.75 [folk metal]
Envy - Abyssal - 8.5/10 [screamo, post-rock]
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone - 8/10 [post-rock]
Eyefear - A World Full of Grey - 7.5/10 [prog metal]
Fall of Efrafa - Elil - 8.5/10 [crust punk, post-rock]
The Fall of Every Season - From Below - 8.5/10 [doom/death metal]
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator - 7.5/10 [post-hardcore]
Farmakon - Robin - 8/10 [prog death metal]
Fear Falls Burning & Nadja - Untitled - 6.25/10 [drone metal, ambient]
A Fine Frenzy - One Cell in the Sea - 8.25/10 [singer-songwriter]
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup - 6.5/10 [folk metal]
Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness - s/t - 7.5/10 [screamo, post-hardcore]
Forgotten Sunrise - Willand - 8.25/10 [electronica, indstrial]
Fucked Up - Year of the Pig - 8.5/10 [hardcore]
Fur Elise - The Pines - 6.5/10 [experimental, indie rock, classical]
God Is an Astronaut - Far from Refuge - 8/10 [post-rock]
Goliath Bird Eater - Blood Venus - 7/10 [drone, experimental, noise]
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Tomorrow - 7.75/10 [grindcore]
Hangar 18 - Sweep the Leg - 8.5/10 [hip hop]
Hardingrock - Grimen - 8/10 [folk rock]
Heed - Demo - 7.5/10 [heavy/power metal]
High on Fire - Death is This Commumion - 8/10 [stoner metal]
Immolation - Shadows in the Light - 7.5/10 [death metal]
In Lingua Mortua - Bellowing Sea - Racked By Tempest - 8/10 [prog/melodic black metal]
In Slumber - Scars: Incomplete - 7.5/10 [melodic death metal]
In Vain - The Latter Rain - 8.25/10 [melodic death/black]
Ingrid Michaelson - Girls and Boys - 7.5/10 [singer-songwriter]
Jesu - Conquerer - 8/10 [drone, shoegaze]
Jesu - Sun Down/Sun Rise - 7.25/10 [drone, shoegaze]
Jesu - Jesu and Eluvium Split LP - 7.75 [drone, shoegaze]
Jesu - Lifeline - 7.5/10 [drone, shoegaze]
Joy Wants Eternity - You Who Pretend to Sleep - 8.5/10 [post-rock]
Kamelot - Ghost Opera - 7.5/10 [power metal]
The Kidcrash - Jokes - 8/10 [screamo, post-hardcore]
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul... Please - 8.5/10 [heavy metal]
Korpiklaani - Tervaskanto - 6/10 [folk metal]
Kosmos - s/t - 8/10 [psychedelic/prog rock]
Kronos - The Hellenic Terror - 7/10 [technical death metal]
Laethora - March of the Parasite - 7.5/10 [death metal]
L'antietam - Arthur Carr - 7.5/10 [screamo]
Latitudes - Bleak Epiphanies in Slow Motion - 8.25/10 [sludge metal]
Lifelover - Erotik - 8/10 [black metal, rock]
Limbonic Art - Legacy of Evil - 6.5/10 [symphonic black metal]
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Hardworlder - 8.75/10 [heavy metal, hard rock]
Low in the Sky - We are all counting on you, William - 8/10 [hip hop, electronica]
Lunar Aurora - Andacht - 8.75/10 [black metal]
marie sioux - Faces in the Rocks - 9/10 [singer-songwriter]
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao - 6.5/10 [black metal]
Meet Me In St. Louis - Variations on Swing - 8/10 [post-hardcore]
Mekong Delta - Lurking Fear - 8.25/10 [thrash metal]
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment - 7.5/10 [sludge metal]
Mithras - Behind the Shadows Lie Madness - 8.25/10 [technical death metal]
Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty - 7/10 [folk metal]
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination - 6.5/10 [melodic death metal]
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying - 7.5/10 [thrash metal]
Nadja - Thaumogenesis - 7.5/10 [drone metal, ambient]
Nadja - Guilted by the Sun - 8/10[drone metal, ambient]
Nadja - Radiance of Shadows - 8/10 [drone metal, ambient]
Nahemah - The Second Philosophy - 8.5/10 [prog/melodic death metal]
Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil - 8.5/10 [prog/melodic black metal]
Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites - 7.75/10 [death metal]
Neurosis - Given to the Rising - 8.25/10 [sludge metal]
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir - 7.5/10 [death/doom metal]
Novembre - The Blue - 7.75/10 [death/doom metal]
NOX - Ixaxaar - 7.25/10 [death metal]
The Ocean - Precambrian - 8/10 [atmospheric sludge metal]
Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion - 7.5/10 [death metal]
Oh, Sleeper - When I Am God - 7.5/10 [post-hardcore, metalcore]
OM - Pilgrimage - 7.25/10 [stoner/doom metal]
Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire - 8/10 [stoner metal]
Overmars - Born Again - 8.25/10 [sludge metal]
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds - 9.5/10 [experimental]
Pelican - City of Echoes - 6.5/10 [post-rock, atmospheric sludge metal]
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet - 7.75/10 [prog rock]
Portal - Outre - 8.5/10 [black/death metal]
Poverty's No Crime - Save My Soul - 8/10 [prog metal]
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead - 8.25/10 [folk/black metal]
Pygmy Lush - Bitter River - 8/10 [post-hardcore, indie rock, screamo]
Raventale - ?? ??????????? ??????? - 7.5/10 [black/doom metal]
Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers - 9/10 [doom metal]
Rosetta - Wake/Lift - 7.75/10 [atmospheric sludge metal, post-rock]
Ruiner - Prepare to Be Let Down - 7.5/10 [melodic hardcore]
Rwake - Voices of Omens - 7.5/10 [sludge metal]
Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey - 9/10 [black metal]
Shining - V - Halmstad (Niklas angående Niklas) - 9/10 [black metal]
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn - 8.75/10 [symphonic black/thrash metal]
Sleepmakeswaves - s/t - 8/10 [post-rock]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times - 7/10 [experimental rock]
Smoke or Fire - This Sinking Ship - 7.5/10 [melodic hardcore]
Steeples - Summer 07 Demo - 7.5/10 [screamo, post-hardcore]
Steve Vai - Sound Theories Volume 1 & 2 - 8.5/10 [symphonic rock]
Stravaganzza - Requiem - 8/10 [prog metal]
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between - 7/10 [ska]
Sun Caged - Artemisia - 7.75/10 [prog metal]
Swallow the Sun - Hope - 7.75/10 [death/doom metal]
Swarrrm - Black Bong - 6.25/10[death/grindcore]
Symphony X - Paradise Lost - 7/10 [prog/power metal]
Torche - In Return - 7.25/10 [sludge metal]
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse - 8/10 [singer-songwriter]
Trainwreck - Split With Comadre - 8/10 [screamo, post-hardcore, punk]
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun - 7.5/10 [electronica, ambient]
Vintersorg - Solens Rotter - 6.75/10 [prog/folk metal]
WAYD - Ghostwalk - 8.75/10 [prog/technical death metal]
A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide - 8.75/10 [melodic hardcore]
Winds - Prominence and Demise - 8.5/10 [prog metal]
Winter's Thrall - In:Through:Out - 7.5/10 [gothic metal]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters - 8.25/10 [prog black metal]
Yakuza - Transmutations - 6.75/10 [post-hardcore]
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss - 8/10 [post-rock]



I've heard plenty more, but they certainly don't deserve a spot on this list (Dream Theater, Job for a Cowboy, As I Lay Dying, etc). I'll try and finalize all the ratings by the end of the year. And of course there's still plenty I haven't listened to yet, but I'm working on it.