u/Kai_FS

My ranking:

1. State of Slow Decay

2. Foregone, Pt. 1

3. Foregone, Pt. 2

4. A Dialogue in B Flat Minor

5. The Great Deceiver

6. The Beginning of All Things That Will End

7. Cynosure

8. Become One

9. Meet Your Maker

10. Bleeding Out

11. In The Dark

12. Pure Light of Mind

13. End the Transmission

My ranking:

1. Stay with Me

2. I, the Mask

3. We Will Remember

4. All the Pain

5. Burn

6. Call My Name

7. I am Above

8. Voices

9. Deep Inside

10. In This Life

11. Follow Me.

12. This is our House

My ranking:

1. Wallflower

2. Drained

3. Save Me

4. The Truth

5. Us Against the World

6. Here Until Forever

7. Greatest Greed

8. The End

9. Battles

10. Before I Fall

11. Underneath My Skin

12. In My Room

13. Through My Eyes

14. Like Sand

My ranking:

1. When the World Explodes

2. In Plain View

3. Paralyzed

4. Rusted Nail

5. Monsters in the Ballroom

6. Filtered Truth

7. Siren Charms

8. The Chase

9. With Eyes Wide Open

10. Everything’s Gone

11. Dead Eyes

12. Become the Sky

13. Through Oblivion

Hot take: this album has the best choruses of the alt era and I kinda prefer it over a sense of purpose

My ranking:

1. Ropes

2. A New Dawn

3. Where the Dead Ships Dwell

4. Fear is the Weakness

5. All for Me

6. Sounds of a Playground Fading

7. Deliver Us

8. Liberation

9. The Puzzle

10. Darker Times

11. The Attic

12. Enter Tragedy

13. Jester’s Door

My ranking:

1. ⁠The Chosen Pessimist

2. ⁠Tilt

3. ⁠Move Through Me

4. ⁠I’m the Highway

5. ⁠Alias

6. ⁠The Mirror’s Truth

7. ⁠Delight and Angers

8. ⁠Drenched in Fear

9. ⁠Sleepless Again

10. ⁠Sober and Irrelevant

11. ⁠Disconnected

12. ⁠Abnegation

13. ⁠Condemned

14. ⁠March to the Shore

15. ⁠Eraser

My ranking:

1. Reflect The Storm

2. Crawling Through Knives

3. Take This Life

4. Vanishing Light

5. Leeches

6. Your Bedtime Story is Scaring Everyone

7. Come Clarity

8. Vacuum

9. Dead End

10. Pacing Death’s Trail

11. Our Infinite Struggle

12. Versus Terminus

13. Scream

My ranking:

1. Cloud Connected

2. Trigger

3. Watch Them Feed

4. Black and White

5. Free Fall

6. Dawn of a New Day

7. Metaphor

8. Reroute to Remain

9. System

10. Land of Confusion

11. Transparent

12. Dismiss the Cynics

13. Dark Signs

14. Egonomic

15. Drifter

16. Minus

My ranking:

1. Only for the Weak

2. Square Nothing

3. Suburban Me

4. Pinball Map

5. Clayman

6. Bullet Ride

7. World of Promises

8. Another Day in Quicksand

9. As the Future Repeats Today

10. Swim

11. Strong and Smart

12. Brush the Dust Away

13. Satellites and Astronauts

1. Ordinary Story

2. Man Made God - works surprisingly well as an album closer for a bonus track

3. Coerced Coexistence

4. Zombie Inc.

5. Colony

6. The New Word

7. Embody The Invisible

8. Resin

9. Insipid 2000

10. Scorn

11. Pallar Anders Visa

12. Behind Space ‘99

My ranking:

1. Jester Script Transfigured

2. Words Within The Margin

3. Gyroscope

4. Everything Counts/Whoracle - I love Depeche Mode but this version hits different

5. Dialogue With The Stars

6. Food For The Gods

7. The Hive

8. Episode 666

9. Jotun

10. Clad in Shadows 99 - why is it even on Whoracle?

11. Morphing into Primal - only song off this record I don’t really like

Another fucking solid album. Arguably even harder to rank than The Jester Race.

My ranking:

1. December Flower - Genuinely my favourite guitar solo of all time

2. Goliaths Disarm Their Davids - Bonus track that is a much better album closer

3. Dead Eternity

4. Artifacts Of The Black Rain

5. Graveland

6. The Jester’s Dance

7. Moonshield

8. Lord Hypnos

9. The Jester Race

10. Wayfarer

11. Dead God In Me - Would be higher if not for that crying baby sound

Tbh this album was really hard to rank. Places 2-8 are all S tier songs and are interchangeable.

My ranking:

Lunar Strain:

1. Everlost, Pt.2

2. In Flames

3. Behind Space

4. Lunar Strain

5. Everlost, Pt. 1

6. Upon an Oaken Throne

7. Clad in Shadows

8. Dreamscape

9. Starforsaken

10. Hårgalåten

Subterranean(excluding songs that appeared on TJR):

1. Ever Dying

2. Stand Ablaze

3. Biosphere

4. Subterranean

5. Timeless

The beginning of the song is majestic, reminds me of ATLA/ Kung Fu Panda/ Ninjago soundtracks, but the level looks like recent tab slop