Album Anniversary List 2026-06-07

Today's anniversaries are:

2000

• Bisbâyé - Bisbâyé (experimental, mathrock, metal, rock, Montréal)

2004

• The Killers - Hot Fuss (Rock)

2005

• Dream Theater - Octavarium (Metal)

• The Number Twelve Looks like You - Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear (Metal)

2006

• 百景 (Hyakkei) - Standing Still in a Moving Scene (progressive rock)

2011

• Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes (metal, death metal, experimental, technical death metal, Chicago)

• 上原ひろみ ザ・トリオ・プロジェクト (Uehara Hiromi za torio purojekuto / Hiromi Uehara: The Trio Project) - Voice (jazz fusion)

2012

• Numbers - Numbers (metal, electronic, hardcore, heavy, jazz, melodic, metal, metalcore, neo-classical, progressive, Seattle)

2013

• Bisbâyé - Gestalt (experimental, mathrock, metal, rock, Montréal) Read our review.

• Thalion - Dawn of Chaos (metal, speed metal, and…, power metal, tagsmetal, trash metal, Saguenay)

2015

• ██████ (Nic) - Srpen (alternative, atmospheric black metal, black metal, ambient, post-hardcore, screamo, Plzen)

• Tom Namias - Tom Namias (folk)

2016

• Aaron Myers-Brooks - Thought Party (rock, tech metal, atonal, brutal prog, experimental, mathcore, mathrock, microtonal, odd time signatures, polyrhythmic, Pittsburgh) Read our review.

• Archaic Decapitator - Light of a Different Sun (death metal, light of a different sun, melodic death metal, metal, Connecticut) Read our review.

• Psycho Yogi - Shrine (alternative, alternative rock, dark cabaret, jazz, jazz rock, london uk, prog, progressive, progressive rock, punk, rock, avant-garde, jazz, math rock, London)

2017

• Æther Realm - Tarot (folk metal, melodic death metal, metal, symphonic metal, viking metal, heavy metal, progressive metal, Asheville)

• Ghost Toast - Out of This World (experimental, ghost toast, hungary, progressive rock, artrock, experimental rock, instrumental, post metal, post rock, progressive metal, Debrecen)

• Immortal Onion - Ocelot of Salvation (jazz, cinematic, instrumental, nu-jazz, progressive, Gdańsk) Read our review.

• Lingua ignōta - All Bitches Die (experimental, retribution, United States)

• Milco - 練馬 (Nerima) (prog rock, progressive rock, rock, acoustic guitar, animals as leaders, chon, djent, guitar, instrumental, math rock, mathrock, periphery, progressive metal, Los Angeles)

• Ιρκεδ (Irked) - Conterminal Angels (metal, midicore, technical metal, mathcore, Toronto)

2018

• Albert Cirera & Witold Oleszak - Terra plāna (free improvisation, free jazz, Poznań)

• Golden Master - The God Chord (ambient, bass music, drone, edm, electronic, experimental, hip hop, microtonal, new age, techno, ambient, Seattle)

• The Echogenic - Ark (metal, progressive rock, rock, instrumental, Philadelphia)

2019

• Aurora Aksnes - A Different Kind of Human: Step Ⅱ (Pop)

• Brandee Younger - Soul Awakening (jazz, classical, funk, harp, hip hop, New York)

• Buy Jupiter - Buy Jupiter, Part Ⅲ: Eclipse (djent, metal, metalcore, modern metal, Lyon)

• Chon - Chon (Alternative, Rock)

• EABS - Slavic Spirits (jazz, free jazz, hip hop, jazz, london jazz, poland, polish, polish jazz, slavic, spiritual jazz, uk jazz, Wrocław)

• Flub - Flub (metal, classical, death metal, deathcore, experimental, melodic death metal, prog tech, progressive metal, tech death, technical death metal, Sacramento)

• Holy Grinder - Chain of Revenge (metal, grindcore, noisecore, noisegrind, powerviolence, queer, Toronto)

• Les Funktionnaires - 2034 (funk, blues, francophone, indie rock, jazz, rock, Montreal) Read our review.

• Møl - Ⅰ & Ⅱ (black metal, metal, blackgaze, shoegaze, shoegaze black metal, shoegaze metal, Aarhus)

• Morass of Molasses - The Ties that Bind (blues, doom, metal, rock, stoner, Reading)

• Philipp Gropper's Philm - Consequences (jazz, oliver steidle, philipp gropper, philipp gropper’s philm, robert landfermann, whyplayjazz, avant-garde, improvised music, jazz, modern jazz, Berlin)

• Suspensão - Rayon blanc (experimental, jazz, lisbon scene, creative process, free improv, free improvisation, free jazz, live, near silence, Lisbon)

• The Resonance Project - The Resonance Project (jazz fusion, metal, prog, progressive metal, progressive rock, orchestral, Los Angeles) Read our review.

• Thirteen of Everything - Our Own Sad Fate (progressive rock, rock, symphonic progressive rock, prog, prog rock, symphonic prog, Austin)

• Unya - Unya (jazz, progressive rock, blues, blues rock, pop rock, Finland)

• Мотанка (Motanka) - Мотанка (Motanka) (post-metal)

• 잠비나이 (Jambinai) - 온다 (Onda) (experimental, Seoul) Read our review.

2020

• 다브다 (Dabeuda / Dabda) - 다만모든빛나는것은있다 (Daman modeun bichnaneungeos-eun issda / But All the Shining Things Are) (post-rock)

2021

• The Original Drag - Forever Cocoon (experimental jazz)

2022

• Just because Someone Lets You Torture Them Doesn't Mean You Should - Just because Someone Lets You Torture Them Doesn't Mean You Should (math rock)

• Medewiwin & Everlasting Light - Split (power electronics, black metal)

• MRW - Zakonnice (progressive metal)

• October Equus - Noches blancas, luces rojas (progressive rock)

• Reverb on Repeat - Demo 3 (blackgaze)

• Scranton Strangler - Scranton Strangler (grindcore)

• Soll - Mind Reader (post-jazz)

2023

• Euclid - Revilement (deathcore)

• Giuseppe Bottiglieri - Lucóre (avant-garde jazz)

• Hilarious Disasters & Катерина Зяблюк (Kateryna Zjabljuk / Katherine Zyabluk) - Aporia, Drafts & Hilarious Disasters, Live in Kraków (free jazz)

• i.o - When the Dandelions No Longer Grow (free jazz)

• Miserable Failure - Тоска (Toska) (progressive deathgrind)

• The Astral Serpent - Mirages in Izar (black metal)

2024

• Ad patrēs - Unbreathable (technical death metal)

• Aetheria cōnscientia - The Blossoming (progressive black metal)

• Altus - Mythos (modern jazz)

• Angélica Garcia - Gemelo (indie pop)

• Antinomie - Pareidolia (experimental math rock)

• Aurora Aksnes - What Happened to the Heart? (art pop)

• Candy - It’s inside You (hardcore)

• Cruce signātus - Cruce signātus (progressive synthwave)

• Dysrhythmia - Coffin of Conviction (avant-garde metal)

• Fractal Generator - Convergence (technical death metal)

• Glass Coffin - Black Curse of Terror (black punk)

• Hippotraktor - Stasis (progressive metal)

• Houle - Ciel cendre et Misère noire (black metal)

• Huntsmen - The Dry Land (post-metal)

• Illyria - Wanderlust (progressive metalcore)

• Incipient Chaos - Incipient Chaos (avant-garde black metal)

• Inconcessus lūx lūcis - Temples Colliding in Fire (black metal)

• Insect Ark - Raw Blood Singing (experimental doom metal)

• Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez - A Letter to the Earth (avant-garde jazz)

• Les Ruines de l'Azur - Les Ruines de l'Azur (progressive rock)

• Massacre - Sonic Oblivion (drone noise)

• Matt Choboter, John Arne Rånes, and Jan Kadereit - Synaptic Biosphere (experimental jazz)

• Matziz - BIL-IA (progressive trip-hop)

• Mountainscape - Iridescent (progressive metal)

• Mumuksu & Iravu - Sudra (atmospheric black metal)

• Okular - Regenerate (progressive death metal)

• Oubliette - Eternity Whispers (progressive death metal)

• Richard Henshall - Mu, Volume Ⅰ (nu prog)

• Richard Knox - Unyielding Ⅰ (ambient post-rock)

• Sam Newbould - Homing (nu jazz)

• Sandman Project - Where Did You Go? (Ethio-jazz)

• Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death (brutal death metal)

• Sexual Jeremy - Bleachers: A New Aural Experience (noise rock)

• Sons of Arrakis - Volume Ⅱ (stoner rock)

• Sphère - Objet violent non identifié (ambient black metal)

• Tashi Wada - What Is Not Strange? (experimental pop)

• تق & عادل پورصمدی (Tegh & Adel Poursamadi) - After You Left (ambient electro)

• Terminal Function - The Symbiont (technical death metal)

• Thanatotherion - Alienation Manifesto (avant-garde black metal)

• The Crooked Fiddle Band - The Free Wild Wind & the Songs of Birds (progressive folk)

• The Omnific - The Law of Augmenting Returns (progressive metal)

• The Rhythm Method - Pastorale (contemporary classical)

• Torrens - Les Lois d'airain (post-rock)

• Umbra vītae - Light of Death (hardcore)

• Vomit the Soul - Massive Incineration (death metal)

• Ερήνη Τορνεσάκη (Erini Tornesaki) - Φως (Fos) (folk)

• 梅崎康二郎 (Umezaki Kōjirō) & Hub New Music - A Distance, Intertwined (contemporary classical)