2003 is coming to an end...

[Stormwatch]

Best for me is We've Come For You All - Anthrax, then DoD by Iron Maiden. I haven't got any newer extreme stuff this year, only the older Opeth, Death etc.



I think the unanimous Biggest Disappointment of the year will be St Anger. It might have been great, but well, it's just a pile of fucking crap.

 

[MAGUS]

revenge - triumph.genocide.antichrist
kult ov azazel - oculus infernum
axis of perdition - the ichneumon method
brodequin - prelude to execution

more to come..

 

[Ellestin]

Here is mine so far, and I can't see which album scheduled before end of year could penetrate this top 10:

1. Elend - Winds Devouring Men
2. Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
3. Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
4. The Gathering - Souvenirs
5. Opeth - Damnation
6. Cult of Luna - The Beyond
7. Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus
8. Burst - Prey on Life
9. Enslaved - Below the Lights
10. Monolithe - Monolithe I


Big letdown:
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

Minor letdowns:
Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
Virgin Black - Elegant... and Dying

 

[Moshpit]

Don´t you think that it´s too early to make a 2003 summary?

Anway, here´s my list:

1) The Gathering - Souvenirs
2) Soilwork - Figure number five
3) Hammerfall - One crimson night
4) Anthrax - We´ve come for you all

DVD:

Nightwish - End of innocence

Disappointments:

Lica - St.

 

[Dev]

1.Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
2.Opeth - Damnation
3.Elend - Winds Devouring Men
4.Solefald - In Harmonia Univesalis
5.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
6.Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
7.Enslaved - Below The Lights
8.The Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
9.Ulver - A Quick Fix Of Melancholy EP
10.The Gathering - Souvenirs / Anathema - A Natural Disaster

 

[Henrik Main]

Old Man's Child - Sacrifice of Vengeance. Kickass record, great keyboard and guitar sound, very memorable.

The record is called "In Defiance Of Existence" and does indeed kick ass. Here are some of my favourite 2003 releases:

Vesania - Firefrost Arcanum
Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence
Carpathian Forest - Defending The Throne Of Evil
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Blood Red Throne - Affiliated With The Suffering
Terrorgruppe - Fundamental

 

[Necro Joe]

Deatroyer 666 - Terror Abraxas, is the only release to really impress me so far, which is sad considering last year was so great. Other good albums:

Vital Remains: Dechristianize, Blut Aus Nord: The work which transforms god, Behemoth: Zos Kia Cultis, Nasum: Helvete.

Here's to hoping the new Doomsword is up to standard.

 

[Xalon Niles]

Look at my Signature to see my favorite cds of 2003.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Well, technically it doesn't come out until January, but I'm listening to Akercocke's 'Choronzon' at the moment, and considering how much I loved 'The Goat Of Mendes', I'm sorely disappointed... maybe it'll grow on me, though.

It came out already. I saw it at the store tonight. I think it is just as good as Goat of Mendes. just my opinion.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Top 20

1. Avulsed - Yearning For The Grotesque
2. Skeptic - Unbeliever's Script
3. All Shall Perish - Hate.Malice.Revenge
4. Exhumed - Anatomy is Destiny
5. Iniquity - Iniquity Bloody Iniquity
6. Aborted - Goremaggedon
7. Vital Remains - Dechristianize
8. Severed Saviour - Brutality is Law
9. Farmakon - A Warm Glimpse
10. Goatsblood - Drull
11. Skepticism - Farmakon
12. Grimfist - Ghouls of Grandeur
13. Forgotten Silence - Kabaach
14. Nasum - Helvete
15. Lamb of God - As The Palaces Burn
16. Melechesh - Sphynx
17. The Legion - Unseen To Creation
18. Death Machine - s/t
19. Forgotten Tomb - Springtime Depression
20. Ephel Duath - A Painter's Palette

Honorable Mention:

Sleep - Dopesmoker
Blood Red Throne - Affliated With The Suffering
Misery Index - Retaliate
Graveland - The Fire of Awakening
The Crown - Possesed 13
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
1349 - Liberation
Skinless - From Sacrifice To Survival
Akercocke - Chronozone

 

[Edgecrusher]

You guys missed one:

Goatwhore- Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun

 

[dill_the_devil]

It came out already. I saw it at the store tonight. I think it is just as good as Goat of Mendes. just my opinion.

Really? The promo/bio material that Earache sent out with the record says it isn't released until the 19th of January... maybe that's just the UK release date, then.

I think it's starting to grow on me a little more, actually - they seem to have taken on board a lot more influences than just black and death metal this time round - I noticed elements of slow, funeral doom and straight-forward heavy metal in some of the passages, and some strange, deliberately discordant unsettling passages...

 

[Krilons Resa]

Really? The promo/bio material that Earache sent out with the record says it isn't released until the 19th of January... maybe that's just the UK release date, then.

I think it's starting to grow on me a little more, actually - they seem to have taken on board a lot more influences than just black and death metal this time round - I noticed elements of slow, funeral doom and straight-forward heavy metal in some of the passages, and some strange, deliberately discordant unsettling passages...

Yeah. It is released here. That sucks. Maybe you guys in Euro can get imports. I agree with you on the album.

 

[Angrafan]

1. Anekdoten- Gravity
2. The Gathering- Souvenirs
3. Dave Matthews- Some Devil
4. Los Hermanos- Ventura
5. Ben Harper- Diamonds on the Inside
6. Anathema- A Natural Disaster
7. Soilwork- Figure Number Five
8. Opeth- Damnation
9. Devin Townsend band- Accelerated Evolution
10. A Perfect Circle- Thirteenth Step

 

[dill_the_devil]

Akercocke has finally clicked for me! It took a while, but it makes sense now. They've opened up their remit of influences so widely, it takes a while to get a grip on them, now I love the album.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Akercocke has finally clicked for me! It took a while, but it makes sense now. They've opened up their remit of influences so widely, it takes a while to get a grip on them, now I love the album.

AWESOME dude! It is one of them albums that takes time to appreciate.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Best i've bought:
The Crown- Possessed 13
Lamb Of God- As The Palace's Burn
Iron Maiden- Dance Of Death
Extol-Synergy
Ephel Duath - A Painter's Palette

Worst:
DTB- Accelerated Evolution (as much as I love Devins work, it didn't grab me)
Opeth- Damnation
APC- Thirteenth Step


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down:
Soilwork-FNF

Haven't got many 2003 cd's

 

[J.]

In no order...

Best of 2003 so far:

Negura Bunget - n' crugu bradului
Poison the Well - You Come Before You
Manes - Vilosophe
Watchmaker - Kill.Fucking.Everyone.
Rune - The End of Nothing
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Geasa - Fate's Lost Son
Nasum - Helvete

Disappointments of 2003:

Zyklon - Aeon
Golden Dawn - Masquerade
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

I've yet to hear 2003 releases from Neurosis, Old Man Gloom, Akercocke, Falkenbach, Melechesh and Mistress.

 

[pisschrist]

Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Opeth - Damnation
Dying Fetus - Stop at Nothing
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Amon Amarth - Versus the World

i havent heard many new releases from thsi year other than these.

 

[Dark Life Dying]

1. Solefald - In harmonia universali
2. Opeth - Damnation
3. Gordian Knot - Emergent
4. Ephel Duath - The painter's palette
5. The Old Dead Tree - The nameless disease
6. Dead Soul Tribe - A murder of crows
7. OSI - Office of strategic influence
8. Dimmu Borgir - Death cult armageddon
9. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
10. Evergrey - Recreation day