Cheryl Prime's list
- Rome - Hell Money (Trisol)
- Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
- Bell Witch - Longing (Profound Lore Records)
- Mgla - With Hearts Toward None (Northern Heritage Records)
- Anathema - Weather Systems (Kscope)
- Kaevum - Natur (Darker Than Black Records)
- Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht (Cold Dimensions)
- Evoken - Atra Mors (Profound Lore)
- The Great Old Ones - Al Azif (Antithetic \ LADLO)
- Amenra - Mass V (Neurot Recordings)
- Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy (Debemur Morti Productions)
- Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
- Wreck & Reference - No Youth (Independent / Flenser Records)
- Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR Records)
- Panopticon - Kentucky (Handmade Birds)
- Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph (Candlelight Records)
- Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (4AD)
- Pinkish Black - Self Titled (Handmade Birds)
- Ahab - The Giant (Napalm)
- Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (Prophecy Productions)
- Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas (Candlelight)
- Katatonia - Dead End Kings (Peaceville)
- Bosse-de-Nage - iii (Profound Lore)
- Swans - The Seer (Young God)
- Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)
Jon E.'s list
- Evoken - Atra Mors (Profound Lore)
- Pig Destroyer - Book Burner (Relapse)
- Swans - The Seer (Young God)
- Samothrace - Reverence To Stone (20 Buck Spin)
- Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
- Sean Price - Mic Tyson (Duck Down)
- Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (Williams Street Records)
- Xibalba - Hasta La Muerte (Southern Lord)
- Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope/Top Dawg/Aftermath)
- Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
- Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay (Neurot Recordings)
- Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
- The Love Below - Every Tongue Shall Caress (A389)
- Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
- El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
- Homewrecker - Worms & Dirt (A389)
- Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
- Panopticon - Kentucky (Handmade Birds)
- Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering (Black Market Activities)
- Bell Witch - Longing (Profound Lore Records)
- Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR Records)
- Sutekh Hexen - Larvae (Handmade Birds)
- Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph (Candlelight Records)
- Horseback - Half Blood (Relapse)
- Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
Loren's list
- Toys That Kill - Fambly 42 (Recess)
- Classics Of Love - Self Titled (Asian Man)
- Audacity - Mellow Cruisers (Recess)
- Grabass Charlestons - Dale & the Careeners (No Idea)
- Arms Aloft - Sawdust City (Kiss of Death)
- Off! - Self Titled (Vice)
- Dan Padilla - Sports Fans (Dirt Cult)
- El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
- Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds - I'd Rather Die Than Live Forever (Red Scare Industries)
- The Hussy - Weed Seizure (Tic Tac Totally)
- Aesop Rock - Skelethon (Rhymesayers)
- La Coka Nostra - Masters of the Dark Arts (Fat Beats)
- Royal Headache - Self Titled (Whats Your Rupture?)
- New Bruises - Chock Full of Misery (Kiss of Death)
- P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
- Plastic Cross - Grayscale Rainbows (Don Giovanni)
- Mind Spiders - Meltdown (Dirtnap)
- God Equals Genocide - Rattled Minds (Razorcake\Dirt Cult)
- Pujol - United States Of Being (Saddle Creek)
- Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth (Universal)
- The Magnificent - Bad Lucky (Dirt Cult)
- White Lung - Sorry (Deranged)
- Shell Shag - Fuck Society (Mauled by Tigers)
- Ty Segall - Twins (Drag City)
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs (Superball)
Matt's list
- The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
- Propagandhi - Failed States (Epitaph)
- Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
- Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
- The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (Epitaph)
Nathan's list
- El-P - Cancer 4 Cure (Fat Possum)
- Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl)
- Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead (Tragedy)
- Crystal Castles - III (Fiction)
- Testament - Dark Roots of Earth (Nuclear Blast)
- Off! - Self Titled (Vice)
- Nü Sensae - Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
- White Lung - Sorry (Deranged)
- Apollo Brown - Trophies (Mello Music Group)
- Guilty Simpson - Dice Game (Mello Music Group)
- Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music (Williams Street Records)
- Roc Marciano - Reloaded (Decon)
- Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope/Top Dawg/Aftermath)
- Martyrdöd - Paranoia (Southern Lord)
- Wolfbrigade - Damned (Southern Lord)
- I Self Devine - The Sound of Low Class Amerika (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
- P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
- Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
- Mean Jeans - On Mars (Dirtnap)
- WAR//PLAGUE - On A Darker Dawn (Profane Existence)
- SpaceGhostPurrp - Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp (4AD)
- Lil Fame & Termanology - Fizzyology (Brick)
- Meek Mill - Dreams and Nightmares (Maybcach Music Group/Warner Bros. )
- Crocodiles - Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss Records )
- Public Image Ltd. - This is PiL (PiL Official)
Nick M.'s list
- Cheap Girls - Giant Orange (Rise)
- Propagandhi - Failed States (Epitaph)
- The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten (Mercury)
- The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past (Epitaph)
- Ceremony - Zoo (Matador)
- Title Fight - Floral Green (Side One Dummy)
- Masked Intruder - Self Titled (Red Scare)
- Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm (Run For Cover Records)
- The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
- Cory Branan - Mutt (Bloodshot Records)
- Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
- Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (Asian Man)
- The Men - Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
- Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
- Titan - Burn (Hypaethral )
- The Dopamines - Vices (It's Alive)
- The Sidekicks - Awkward Breeds (Red Scare Industries)
- John K. Samson - Provincial (Anti)
- Hop Along - Get Disowned (Hot Green)
- Crystal Castles - III (Fiction)
- Tim Barry - 40 Miler (Chunksaah)
- Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
- P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)
- The Smith Street Band - Sunshine (Poison City)
- Brendan Kelly & The Wandering Birds - I'd Rather Die Than Live Forever (Red Scare Industries)
Sarah's list
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata (Sensory)
- Anathema - Weather Systems (Kscope)
- The Eye Of Time - Self Titled (Denovali)
- Rush - Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
- Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence (Metal Blade)
- Wintersun - Time I (Nuclear Blast)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
- Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2 (EMI)
- Battlestations - In a Cold Embrace (Independent)
- Sigh - In Somniphobia (Candlelight)
- Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
- Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52 (ATO)
- Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud (HevyDevy)
- Kronos Quartet - Music of Vladimir Martynov (Nonesuch)
- Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun (Drag City)
- Alcest - Les Voyages de l'Âme (Prophecy Productions)
- Storm Corrosion - Self Titled (Roadrunner)
- Om - Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
- Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)
- Meshuggah - Koloss (Nuclear Blast)
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real (Inside Out)
- The Korea - Колесницы Богов (Independent)
- Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos (Basick)
- Cloudkicker - Fade (Independent)
- OSI - Fire Make Thunder (Metal Blade)
Scott W.'s list
- Mission Of Burma - Unsound (Fire)
- fun. - Some Nights (Fueled By Ramen)
- The English Beat - The Complete Beat (Shout Factory)
- Muse - The 2nd Law (Warner\Helium 3)
- Murder By Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon (Bloodshot)
- Red Hot Rebellion - Self Titled (Independent)
- Ian Anderson - Thick as a Brick 2 (EMI)
- Dr. Dog - Be The Void (Anti)
- Flobots - The Circle In The Square (Shanachie Entertainment)
- Drivin' N Cryin' - Songs From The Laundromat (New!)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation)
- Joe Jackson - The Duke (Razor & Tie)
- The Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
- Jack White - Blunderbuss (Third Man)
- Hot Water Music - Exister (Rise)
- Hidden Hospitals - EP 02 (Independent)
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata (Sensory)
- Pink Floyd - The Wall (Experience Edition) (Capitol)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans (MVD Visual)
- Craig Finn - Clear Heart/Full Eyes (Vagrant)
- Rush - Clockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
- 8MM - Between The Devil and Two Black Hearts (ChelseaGirl )
- Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
- Young And In The Way - Amen / I Am Not What I Am (A389)
- Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (Polydor)
Steven Ivy's list
- Bison B.C. - Lovelessness (Metal Blade)
- Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph\Deathwish Inc)
- Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Metal Blade)
- Black Breath - Sentenced To Life (Southern Lord)
- Kylesa - From the Vaults, Vol. 1 (Season of Mist)
- Soundgarden - King Animal (Universal)
- Rising - To Solemn Ash (Exile on Mainstream)
- Graveyard - Lights Out (Nuclear Blast)
- Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction (Profound Lore)
- The Shrine - Primitive Blast (Tee Pee)
- Torche - Harmonicraft (Volcom)
- Baroness - Yellow & Green (Relapse)
- Soulfly - Enslaved (Roadrunner)
- Fight Amp - Birth Control (Translation Loss)
- The Melvins - Freak Puke (Ipecac)
- Kiss - Monster (Universal)
- Napalm Death - Utilitarian (Century Media)
- Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)
- High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (E1)
- Enabler - All Hail The Void (Southern Lord)