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Rock-A-Rolla

A UK Publication Dedicated To Avant-Rock, Noise And Experimental Sounds.

Many Thanks To Munther Bahay For Supplying These Lists


›› 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009




ROCK-A-ROLLA : Best Of 2009


1. Zu - Carboniferous
2. Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
3. Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Stream
4. Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul
5. Celan - Halo
6. Converge - Axe To Fall
7. Cobalt- Gin
8. Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - The Audacity Of Hype
9. El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Cryptomnesia
10. Part Chimp - Thriller
11. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
12. Secret Chiefs 3 - Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini
13. Pissed Jeans - King Of Jeans
14. Kong - Snake Magnet
15. Slayer - World Painted Blood
16. Eagle Twin - The Unkindness Of Crows
17. Gnaw - This Face
18. Baroness - Blue Record
19. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
20. Dälek - Gutter Tactics
21. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
22. Pelican - What We All Come To Need
23. Madlove - White With Foam
24. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
25. Portal - Swarth
26. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
27. Bushman's Revenge - You Lost Me At Hello
28. Mountains - Choral
29. Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
30. Keelhaul - Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity

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ROCK-A-ROLLA : Best Of 2008

1. Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
2. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
3. Melvins - Nude With Boots
4. Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
5. Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
6. Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
7. Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book Of Angels Volume 9
8. Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
9. Mike Patton - A Perfect Place
10. Racebannon - Racebannon Iv: Acid Or Blood
11. Torche - Meanderthal
12. Portishead - Third
13. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
14. Lustmord - [ O T H E R ]
15. Zach Hill - Astrological Straits
16. Steve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
17. Ascend - Ample Fire Within
18. Akimbo - Jersey Shores
19. Conifer - Crown Fire
20. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Dolores
21. Meshuggah - Obzen
22. Philip Jeck - Sand
23. Ufomammut - Idolum
24. Wildildlife - Six
25. Moha! - One-Way Ticket To Candyland
26. Helms Alee - Night Terror
27. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
28. Krallice - Krallice
29. Jarboe - Mahakali
30. Hey Colossus - Happy Birthday
31. Merzbow - Anicca
32. Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood
33. Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language
34. Jucifer - L'autrichienne
35. Mothlite - The Flax Of Reverie
36. Boris - Smile
37. No Age - Nouns
38. Black Sun - Paralyser
39. Subtle - Exiting Arm
40. Prurient - And Still, Wanting


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ROCK-A-ROLLA : Best Of 2007

1. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
2. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
3. Tomahawk - Anonymous
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
5. Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
6. Dälek - Abandoned Language
7. John Zorn - Six Litanies For Heliogabalus
8. Om - Pilgrimage
9. Jesu - Conqueror
10. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
11. The Locust - New Erections
12. Angels Of Light - We Are Him
13. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
14. Unsane - Visqueen
15. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars (2007)
16. Ktl - 2
17. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
18. Fog - Ditherer
19. Qui - Love's Miracle
20. Pelican - City Of Echoes
21. Orthodox - Amanecer En Puerta Oscura
22. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
23. Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Fire Escape
24. Shining - Grindstone
25. Magik Markers - Boss
26. Battles - Mirrored
27. Caïna - Mourner
28. Merzbow - Coma Berenices
29. Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
30. Liars - Liars


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ROCK-A-ROLLA : Best Of 2006


1. Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
2. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
3. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
4. Orthrelm / Behold... The Arctopus - Split
5. John Zorn - Moonchild: Songs Without Words
6. Dub Trio - New Heavy
7. Zombi - Surface To Air
8. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
9. Jesu - Silver
10. Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
11. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
12. Converge - No Heroes
13. Whitehouse - Asceticists 2006
14. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
15. Subtle - For Hero:For Fool
16. Boris - Pink
17. Wizardzz - Hidden City Of Taurmond
18. Slayer - Christ Illusion
19. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
20. Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
21. Made Out Of Babies - Coward
22. Unearthly Trance - The Trident
23. The Residents - Tweedles!
24. Ooioo - Taiga
25. Ghostigital - In Cod We Trust
26. Grief - Alive
27. Oxbow - Love That's Last: A Wholly Hypnographic & Disturbing Work Regarding Oxbow
28. Jamie Saft / Merzbow - Merzdub
29. Jazkamer - Metal Music Machine
30. Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Starless And Bible Black Sabbath