I'll keep this to metal and other
Extreme genres, as saying every single one would take too much space.
=Progressive metal (tied between
Two albums)
Devin Townsend -
Ocean Machine: Biomech
-To this day, no album has sounded like this. Atmospheric perfection.
The
Ocean - Precambrian
-Too hard to classify. Along with Gangrene, the composition is flawless.
=Black metal
Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
-The orchestration and composition are godlike. The passion felt from this album is overpowering.
=Death metal
Immolation - Close to a
World Below -The pure
Essence of soul crushing death metal.
=Power metal
Versailles - Noble
-The variation is perfect, the guitar work is incredible and the overall feel of the album is cheesy as
Hell, but wow, that is damn good cheese.
=Doom metal (tied between
Two albums)
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
-Riffs, atmosphere and melody. All perfected on this album.
Esoteric - The Pernicious
Enigma -The
Epitome of
Darkness in music.
=Thrash metal
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
-Technically proficient perfection.
=Industrial metal (tied between
Two albums)
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
-Nihilism defined in music. Sludgy, emotionless and crushing.
Strapping Young Lad - City
-Insanity defined in music. The intensity is almost insurmountable.
=Industrial
Swans - Filth
-The
Soundtrack to getting brutally slaughtered. Heavy as fuck.
=Noise (tied between
Two albums)
Merzbow - Venereology
-A horrendous wall of noise, truly enigmatic and amazing.
Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
-Truly terrifying music, unnerving as hell.
=Grindcore
Discordance
Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
-Emotionally
Intense and
Inhuman grindcore.
=Crust
Discharge - Hear
Nothing See
Nothing Say
Nothing -The pinnacle of crust. Aggression and rawness in it's true form.
=Metalcore
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
-Batshit
Insanity intertwined with emotion.
=Post-hardcore
Fall of Efrafa - Elil
-No words can describe.
Last.fm: Mercenarion