As anybody who has listened to this show a few times knows, I HATE doing these damn lists. You and I both know the main reason is because I am extremely indecisive. However, I also detest them because no matter how long I make the list (Kyle gets angry when I do more than 10) I still feel like I am slighting albums that don’t deserve it. Then out of the albums I do pick, I have to split hairs over which ones I like more than others only to come up with a list I am not even sure I 100% agree with! In the end, I have to get something together and just say, “Screw it. It’s close enough.”
And that, my friends, is what you have below. I could make ties or keep swapping around some of the albums in the bottom half of the list, but I got tired of it. I am pretty comfortable with my choices, though. Sure, there are albums I listen to regularly that are not here, but somebody has to lose out, right?
Anyway, considering this list is going up late, we have talked about them all at length (some of them multiple times), and I am a bit lazy, I didn’t write explanations for any of them. If you want to argue any of my placements or want to know why the hell an album is even on my list, just say so in the comments and I’ll respond to that…probably…
- Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Humanity
- Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
- Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol
- Katatonia – Dead End Kings
- Deftones – Koi No Yokan
- Periphery – Periphery II
- Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood of Color
- Enslaved – RIITIIR
- Ne Obliviscaris – Portal of I
- Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
- Cannibal Corpse – Torture
- Enabler – All Hail The Void
- Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
- Atoma – Skylight
- Devin Townsend – Epicloud
- Baroness – Yellow & Green
- High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
- Dawnbringer – Into the Lair of the Sungod
- Grand Magus – The Hunt
- Black Breath – Sentenced to Life
- Allegaeon – Formshifter
- Napalm Death – Utilitarian
- Goatwhore – Blood for the Master
- Meshuggah – Koloss
- Daylight Dies – A Frail Becoming
