Bilateral

- perhaps the weirdest cover art (upload.wikimedia.org) ever.

Transcension (sleepersawake.bandcamp.com)

- now this is my type of indie. "An unholy union of sludge, Tool, and Opeth."

Transatlanticism

- yeah, you read that right Josh.

Damnation Game

- where it all began. The magic of Russell Allen.

Coal

- everyone should listen to The Cloak (www.youtube.com). It's so good. Saddest falsetto ever.

Death Cult Armageddon

- speaking of which...

Reign Through Immortality

- last album was mediocre, hopefully the orchestration on this one is better.

Resistance

Revocation

- 100th status, more metal. Surprise, surprise.

The Theory of Everything

- this one is going to be tough to rate, it's like one massive double album-length song... or four 20+ minute long songs, according to wikipedia. So many sub 2-minute clips, WHY DIVIDE IT UP, ARJEN??

Spitfire

Surgical Steel

"We'll go to very distant lands."

Aletheia

- more Christian metal, oi va!

PTX, Volume 1

New Demons

- new year... new demons? ...

The Migration

- the artwork for this album (www.metalsucks.net) reminds me of Verdeloth the Ancient (www.abugames.com). Every. Time.

Invictus

- more anti-religion ;)

Curse and Chapter

A Crow Left of the Murder

...turns 10 years old in February 2014. Holy fuck.

The Fury of Our Maker's Hand

- The song "Driving Down the Darkness" was featured in the fifteenth episode of the sixth season of Scrubs.

Christ 0

- this has the sickest cover of Gethsemane ever.

Extol

- overtly Christian lyrics from a Norwegian blackened progressive death metal band? WTF?

The Bones of What You Believe

Bleed the Fifth

- Bleed! The! Fifth! Face! Smashed! Fist! = win.