Top 150 Albums
Titles written in GREEN are my top 10! Half of those 10 are from the Pacific Northwest.
- Absu - Tara
- Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
- Aeternus ...and So the Night Became
- Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
- Agalloch - The Mantle*
- Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
- Anata - The Conductor's Departure
- Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
- Animal Collective - Feels
- Animosity - Shut it Down
- Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
- Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
- At The Drive-in - In/Casino/Out
- At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
- August Burns Red - Messengers
- The Banner - Each Breath Haunted
- Baroness - Blue Record
- Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside
- Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
- The Blood Brothers - Crimes
- Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
- Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home
- Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
- Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
- Burzum - Det Som Engang Var*
(special Burzum disclaimer: fuck racism and fuck racists)
- Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes
- Car Bomb - w^w^^w^w
- Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrius
- Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
- Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
- Clutch - The Elephant Riders
- Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky*
- The Cramps - Smell of Female
- Crosses - †††
- Cryptopsy - None So Vile
- The Cure - The Head on the Door*
- Cursed - Cursed II
- Dark Castle - Sprited Migration
- David Bowie - Diamond Dogs*
- The Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
- Deerhunter - Cryptograms
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist*
- Demilich - Nespithe
- The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
- Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
- Dissection - The Somberlain
- Down - NOLA
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Entombed - Clandestine
- Envy - All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead
- Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty*
- The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
- Fall of the Bastards - Dusk of an Ancient Age
- The Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger
- Fever Ray - Fever Ray
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
- Frightmare - Bringing Back the Bloodshed
- The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
- Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
- Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
- Grimes - Visions
- Grinderman - Grinderman 2
- GZA - Liquid Swords
- He Is Legend - White Bat*
- High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
- Hole - Live Through This
- The Horrors - Primary Colours
- Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting
- Immolation - Close to a World Below
- Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
- Indian Summer - Discography
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
- Jucifer - L'autrichienne
- Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
- Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
- Kate Bush - The Dreaming
- King Diamond - Abigail
- Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness
- Kylesa - To Walk a Middle Course
- Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
- The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Leonard Cohen - Songs From a Room
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
- Lil Wayne - Tha Carter II
- Ludicra - Another Great Love Song
- Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
- The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
- Mastodon - Leviathan
- Maximum the Hormone - Yoshu Fukushu
- Meat Puppets - Mirage
- The Microphones - The Glow pt. 2
- Misery Index - Dissent 7"
- Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
- Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
- Moonspell - Wolfheart
- Mother Mother - O My Heart
- Mr. Bungle - California
- My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise
- My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
- My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
- Negura Bunget - OM
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Nirvana - In Utero
- Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
- oOoOO - oOoOO
- Opeth - Watershed*
- Orchid - Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
- OutKast - ATLiens
- PIG - Praise the Lard
- Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
- PJ Harvey - Dry
- Poison the Well - Versions
- Protest the Hero - Fortress
- Pygmy Lush - Bitter River
- Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
- Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
- The Red Chord - Clients
- Root - The Book
- Rwake - Voices of Omens
- Screaming Trees - Invisible Lantern
- Secret Stairways - Enchantment of the Ring
- Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
- Skarp - Requiem
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - ...of Natural History
- Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
- Sparrow House - Falls
- Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
- Strapping Young Lad - City
- Suffocation - Pierced From Within
- Sunny Day Real Estate - The Pink Album
- System of a Down - Mesmerize
- Tiamat - Wildhoney
- !T.O.O.H.! - Rad a Trest
- Touche Amore - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
- Tragedy - Vengeance
- T. Rex - Electric Warrior
- Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
- uneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
- Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
- Veil of Maya - The Common Man's Collapse
- Wavves - Wavvves
- Weakling - Dead as Dreams
- The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
- White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
- Wolfbrigade - In Darkness You Feel No Regrets
- X - Wild Gift
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
- Yes - Fragile
* = Tough Picks. For most of these groups, I have a clear favorite album. Album titles marked with an asterix were notably hard to decide upon from amongst the artist's albums.