Best Of 2015
Best Of 2015
Roger Batty (Site owner, Editor, reviewer & article writer)
1:Charlotte Braun - Happy Being Sad [Geräuschmanufaktur]
2:Various - Dust On The Nettles: A Journey Through The British Folk Underground [Grapefruit/ Cherry Red]
3:Version - Version [Textural Nightmares]
4: Steve Roach - Skeleton Keys [Projekt]
5:The Residents Featuring Snakefinger - Live In The USA - 13th Anniversary [Klanggalerie]
6:DJ Hidden – Directive[Ad Noiseam]
7:A Raja's Mesh Men - Borophagus [Maniacal Laugh]
8:Nightmare Castle - Phibes [Altar Of Waste]
9:John Wiese - Deviate From Balance [Gilgongo Records]
10:Kerovnian - Far Beyond, Before The Time[ Cold Spring Records)
11:D.S.W.A.C.V - Venus In Furs [DeathSex Electronics]
12:Nar/Ch - (untitled)
13:Bong - We are, we were and we will have been[Ritual Productions]
14:Tony Tears - Music From The Astral Worlds (2000-2014) [Minotauro]
15:Yen Pox - Between the Horizon and the Abyss [ Malignant Records]
16:Infernus - Grinding Christian Flesh[Moribund Records]
17: Ecco - The Curse Of Her Flesh [Nahàsh Atrym Productions]
18:Boar - You Will Never Be Happy [Breaching Static]
19:RRR - Obscene Death Pulsion [Required Rate of Return]
20:23 Threads - Conspicuous Unobstructed Path [Zoharum]
21:Small Hours/The Ebony Tower - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest [Self Release]
22:Allerseelen - Terra Incognita [Aorta / Ahnstern]
23:Tipi & Sylvester Stallone - Soi vienosti murheeni kryyni / Kootut teokset 1978 [Ektro Records]
24:Zombi - The Zombi Anthology [Relapse Records]
25:Dead Body Collection - Highways of Tears [Autistic Campaign]
26:Absurde/Chier - Absurde VS Chier [Required Rate Of Return]
27:Vomir - Black Bag [Signora Ward Records]
28:Iron Maiden- Book Of Souls[Parlophone]
29:The Incredible String Band - Wee Tam and the Big Hug [BGO Records]
30: Inquisition - Into The Infernal Regions of The Ancient Cult [Season of Mist]
Josh Landry (review & article writer)
1. Coil - Backwards [Cold Spring Records]
2. Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper [Domino]
3. Steve Roach - Skeleton Keys [Projekt]
4. Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana - Holographic Codex [Projekt]
5. Quadrant & Iris & Kid Hops - 206 [Commercial Suicide]
6. Nicolas Jaar - Pomegranates [Other People]
7. VA [World Alchemist Records] - World Alchemist Records 10 EP
8. VA [Transfigured Time] - Ritual in Transfigured Time Vol. 2
9. VA [Silent Existence] - The Final Theory
10. VA [Blue Hour Sounds] - Dark Side of Dawn
11. VA [Clocktail Records] - 10 Wonder Drops
12. VA [Lycantrop Records] - Synchronicities
13. VA [Purple Hexagon Records] - Ancient Technology
14. VA [Sangoma Records] - Tanuki Tandava
15. Ception - Oval Window EP [Ektoplazm]
16. Digitnick - Virtualizer EP [Liquid Seed Recordings]
17. Dirty Saffi - Umami [Bom Shanka Music]
18. Exelization - Antinoisis [Ektoplazm]
19. Voidscream - Cadaverous Bloom [Scared Evil Records]
20. Spruce - Mru [Anomalistic Records]
21. Jumpstreet - Brain Parasites EP [GloOM Music]
22. Qiujan - Ritual to the Light [Ektoplazm]
23. EVP - Next Gen Ready [Wild Things Records]
24. Hutti Heita - Hutti Heita [Yggdrasil Records]
25. Cosmic Replicant - Landscapes Motion EP [Pureuphoria Records]
26. Priapizzm - 'Murican [Anomalistic Records]
27. Sonik Scizzor - Intergalaktik Magik [Dark Prisma Records]
28. Seven Strategy - Sampling Singularity [Relative Records]
29. Psyonysus - Unity [Ektoplazm]
30. Hans Dunkelkammer - Analgesic Underworld EP [Glitchy.Tonic.Records]
Martin P(review & article writer)
1:Absurde/Chier - Absurde VS Chier (Required Rate Of Return)
2:Am Not - Unpunished (Unrest Productions)
3:Marc Baron - Carnets (Glistening Examples)
4:Bikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now (Bikini Kill Records)
5:Peter Brotzmann - Munster Bern (Cubus Records)
6:Charlotte Braun - Happy Being Sad (Geräuschmanufaktur)
7:Ornette Coleman – Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino Records)
8:Con-Dom / The Grey Wolves – Waging War Against You (Unrest Productions)
9:Dead Body Collection & Die Reitenden Leichen – Predatory Instinkts Part One (Monolithische Aktion)
10:Beatriz Ferreyra - GRM Works (INA-GRM)
11:Gruesome – Savage Land (Relapse)
12:Howlround – Tales From The Black Tangle (The Fog Signals)
13:I Watched You Die - Untitled (Breaching Static)
14:Alejandro Jodorowsky – The Holy Mountain - The Original Soundtrack (Finders Keepers Records)
15:Kevlar - Criteria (Unrest Productions)
16:Koufar - Lebanon For Lebanese (Fusty Cunt)
17:Peter Kutin - Burmese Days (Gruenrekorder)
18:Mastery - Valis (Flenser Records)
19:Meat Wave - Delusion Moon (SideOneDummy Records )
20:Nuits Rouge - The Night Of Clocks (Room 2A)
21:Dave Phillips & Chrs Galarreta* – The Invisible Cage Of Comfort (Fragment Factory)
22:Persona – Persona (Textural Nightmares)
23:The Rita – Queen Sheets (Urashima)
24:Sauna Youth – Distractions (Upset! The Rhythm)
25:Sleaford Mods - Key Markets (Harbinger Sound)
26:Tissa Mawartyassari - Red Succubus (Palinopsia Recordings)
27:TV Freaks - Bad Luck Charms (Deranged Records)
28:Various - Acts Of Vengeance - UFoI II (Unrest Productions)
29:Various – Excavated Shellac: Reeds (Parlortone)
30:XYZ – XYZ (Radical Elite Records)
Hal Harmon(review & article writer)
1:PSICOPOMPO [Hermann Kopp + Lorenzo Abattoir] - Synchronicity (theory of Carl Jung) (4iB)
2:Pedestrian Deposit - The Architector (Monorail Trespassing)
3:THE RITA/Power Monster - Basque Into Tights (Signora Ward)
4:XOME - Double Live Gonzo! 2 x CD (Love Earth Music)
5:Integrity - Humanity is the Devil: 20th Anniversary Remix & Re-master (Magic Bullet Records)
6:Juice Machine - Behind This Abundance (Poor Little Music)
7:Su Sous Toulouse en Rouge & Hal McGee - Left Devices (HalTapes)
8:Merzbow + Xiu Xiu - MERZXIU (Kingfisher Bluez)
9:Cold Waste/Burnt Hair - Burnt Waste (Dead Tank Records)
10:Breakdancing Ronald Reagan - J.C. (Confessions of a Cyberbully) (CTC Records)
11:Iron Fist of the Sun - We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps (Cold Spring)
12:No Milk - For Real (Hag Bloom Tapes)
13:Permanent Makeup - Taker (No Clear)
14:Developer & Tinnitustimulus - Remixes (Factotum Tapes)
15:She Spread Sorrow - Rumspringa (Cold Spring)
16:Theologian - A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real (Nothing Under the Sun)
17:Various Artists - Florida Noise: Exposure One (Florida Noise)
18:Trepaneringsritualen - Veil The World (Reissue) (Cold Spring)
19:White Matter Phantasm - The Temple of the Clay Flower (Nahàsh Atrym Productions)
20:Burnt Hair/Ars Phoenix - Shinju (Dead Tank Records)
21:William Davenport - The Great American Cassette Masters (Talk Story Films)
22:Dhouser - Dhouser (Self-released)
23:Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
24:Debbie Jaffe and Hal McGee - Invisible Shadows (HalTapes)
25:Italics - Widows/Orphans (Self-released)
26:Oscuro - II (Textural Nightmares)
27:Hafdís Bjarnadóttir - Sounds of Iceland, field recordings by Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (Gruenrekorder)
28:The Nihilistics - Psychic Psoriasis (in four movements) (Fork and Spoon)
29:Raven/Astro - Raven/Astro (Autistic Campaign)
30:Housefire - burnthemasters (Hot Releases)
Paul Casey(review & article writer)
1:Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est [Lavadome Production ]
2:Various Artists - Too Slow to Disco Vol. 2 [How Do You Are? ]
3:Zombi - The Zombi Anthology [Relapse Records ]
4:Zombi - Shape Shift [Relapse ]
5:Yen Pox - Between the Horizon and the Abyss [Malignant Records]
6:Skinless - Only the Ruthless Remain [Relapse ]
7:Orbweaver - Strange Transmissions from the Neuralnomicon [Corpse Flower]
8:Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard (reissue) [Relapse ]
9:Kesä - Kesä [Svart Records ]
10:Funerary Call - The Mirror Reversed - Part II [77th Cycle ]
11:Dark Buddha Rising - Inversum [Neurot Recordings ]
12:Exhumed - Gore Metal: A Necrospective 1998-2015 [Relapse ]
13:Inner Vision Laboratory - Austeros [Zoharum ]
14:Gruesome - Savage Land [Relapse ]
15:Jim Haynes - Scarlet [The Helen Scarsdale Agency ]
16:Khost - Corrosive Shroud [Cold Spring Records]
17:Undergang - Døden Læger Alle Sår [Dark Descent]
18:Troum & raison d'etre - De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu [Essence ]
19:Kristoffer Oustad - Filth Haven [Malignant Records]
20:Kave - Ominousium [Cyclic Law/79th Cycle]
21:Kammarheit - The Nest [Cyclic Law ]
22:Juice Machine & Andrew Quitter - Self Titled [Forever Escaping Boredom]
23:David Borden - Music For Amplified Keyboard Instruments [Spectrum Spools]
Duncan Simpson(review & article writer)
1:Prurient – Frozen Niagra Falls (Profound Lore)
2: Helm – Olympic Mess (PAN)
3: The Necks – Vertigo (RER Megacorp)
4: Kamasi Washington – The Epic (Brainfeeder)
5: Max Richter – Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon)
6: Anna Maria Friman, Ariel Abramovich & Jacob Heringman John Potter - Amores Pasados (ECM)
7: Coil - Backwards (Cold Spring)
8: Arcturus – Arcturian (Prophecy)
9: Ricardo Donoso - Saravá Exu (Denovali)
10: Cremation Lily - Fires Frame the Silhouette (Alter)
11: Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous (City Slang)
12: Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together (Hospital Productions)
13: Vainio & Vigroux – Peau Froide (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
14: Pinkcourtesyphone – Sentimental Something (Important Records)
15: M.E.S.H. – Piteous Gate (PAN)
16: Kerridge - Always Offended Never Ashamed (Contort)
17: Shampoo Boy – Crack (Blackest Ever Black)
18: Consumer Electronics - Repetition Reinforcement (Diagonal)
19: CHRA – Empty Airport (Editions Mego)
20: Nurse With Wound / Blind Cave Salamander – Cabbalism 1-3 (ICR)
21: Thighpaulsandra - The Golden Communion (Editions Mego)
22: Drew McDowall - Collapse (Dais Records)
23: Katatonia - Sanctitude (KScope)
24: Vatican Shadow - Death is Unity with God (Modern Love)
25: Evan Caminiti - Meridian (Thrill Jockey)
26: Jasmine Guffond - Yellow Bell (Sonic Pieces)
27: Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering (Blackest Ever Black)
28: Koenraad Ecker - Sleepwalkers in a Cold Circus (L-NE)
29: Triac - Days (L-NE)
30: Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields (Season of Mist)