2005 - So far, so good... so, what next?

[Henrik Main]

I read Feb. 8, 2005...?

Yeah, in fucking America, it's a 2004 release in Europe. Enslaved's a Norwegian band, Norway's in Europe, ergo it's a 2004 release.

As for the Nile record, allow me to quote what I wrote in a post in the RC forum:

I love "Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka", "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" and "In Their Darkened Shrines", but I think "Annihilation.." is pretty crap. Keywords: Generic, uninspired, dull. It sounds like they've thrown together a bunch of songs that were leftovers from the "In Their Darkened Shrines" session and made a full length out of these songs. Their selling point, the Egyptian themes, have been stripped down, and this album is in reality just a run-of-the-mill death metal album that sounds WAY too polished and clean. I want my death metal brutal and unpolished.

As for good 2005 releases:

Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Astrofaes - Those Whose Past Is Immortal
Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
Moonsorrow - Verisaekeet
Gehenna - WW
Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
Disgorge - Parallels Of Infinite Torture
Vesania - God The Lux
Deeds Of Flesh - Crown Of Souls
Belphegor - Goatreich: Fleshcult
Severe Torture - Bloodletting
etc

Disappointments:

Aborted - The Archaic Abbatoir
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

 

[BikerMiceFromMars]

The new averse sefira is out now. Has anyone heard it?

 

[infoterror]

The new averse sefira is out now. Has anyone heard it?

The sample track was fucking amazing!

http://www.aversesefira.com/plagabraha.mp3

 

[10293847]

Someone in another messageboard was talking about a new Gorguts release, and even quoted Lemay on it's release. Guess I have been fooled yet again.

Sorry for the false hope guys, but this Negativa project sounds promising.

 

[Perdition's Light]

My favorites of 2005 (I'm positive I'll forget some and remember them later):

Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Lurker of Chalice - Self-Titled
Glorior Belli - Ô Laudate Dominvs
Haemoth - Vice, Suffering, And Destruction
Ondskapt - Dödens Evangelium
Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness
Coffins (Jap) - Mortuary In Darkness
Rudra - Brahmavidya Primordial: Part I
Stargazer - The Scream That Tore The Sky
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Jesu - Jesu
Nile - Annihilation of The Wicked
Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
Om - Variations on A Theme
Wreck of The Hesperus - Eulogy for The Sewer Dwellers
Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma
Kill The Client - Wage Slave
The Esoteric - With The Sureness of Sleepwalking
Leng T'Che - Death By A Thousand Cuts

okay, that's all for now

 

[10293847]

That Averse Sefira track is not amazing, but it's pretty good.

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

Great 2005 Albums:
Ulver - Blood Inside
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Steve Vai - Real Illusions: Reflections
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Pain Of Salvation - BE (Original Stage Production)

Poor 2005 Albums:
Dream Theater - Octavarium

Just "okay:"
Circus Maximus - The First Chapter

And that's all I have from 2005, save Pat Metheny - The Way Up

Upcoming 2005 Albums that will be great:
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Solefald - Red For Fire (I'm guessing)

 

[Spirit In Black]

Kill The Client - Wage Slave

2004

Leng T'Che - Death By A Thousand Cuts

2002

 

[Edgecrusher]

Poor 2005 Albums:
Dream Theater - Octavarium

After a few more listens, I have determined that this is their best since 'Awake'

Nevermore- This Godless Endeavor
Candlemass- s/t
Cephalic Carnage- Anamolies
Nile- Annihilation of the Wicked
High On Fire- Blessed Black Wings
Napalm Death- The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code
Primordial- The Gathering Wilderness

 

[Slayed Necros]

Favourites so far:

Macabre Omen - The Ancient Returns
Ondskapt - Dodens Evangelium
Deathspell Omega - Kenose
Deathspell Omega - Mass Grave Aesthetics
Morte Incandescente/Onirik - Our Funeral Yet To Come
Hell Militia - Canonisation Of The Foul Spirit
Ad Hominem - Climax Of Hatred
Glorior Belli - O Laudate Dominus

Disappointments:

Baptism - Morbid Wings Of Sathanas
Satanic Warmaster- Carelian Satanist Madness
Hate Forest - Sorrow

Haven't heard much else. Hopefully we'll be treated to a new Hail or Faustcoven album this year.

 

[Varg Vikernes]

Also a worthy mention goes to the best non-metal album of the year, The Mars Volta's "Frances the Mute"

 

[Krilons Resa]

Best:

Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects
The Evpatoria Report - Golevka
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Slough Feg - Atavism
Baroness - Second (EP)
Shamelady - The Winter Days Were Nights
Isole - Forevermore
Burning Saviours - Burning Saviours
Queens of The Stoneage - Lullabies To Paralyze

Good:

Witchcraft - Firewood
Mournful Congregation - Monad of Creation
Rising Dust - Rising Dust
Taake - Doedskvad ...
Negura Bunget - Inarborat Kosmos (EP)
Acid King - III
Trollskagen


Looking forward to new Hammers of Misfortune, Solitude Aeturnus?!, Gates of Slumber, and a few others that escape me right now...

 

[Trylakos]

Best so far:
1.Spiritual Beggars - Demons
2.Epoch of Unlight - The Continuum Hypothesis
3.Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia

Biggest disapointments:

Judas Priest - angel of retribution
bruce dickinson - Tyrany of Souls
Origin - Echoes of Decimation

Still looking forward to:

Summoning
Woods of Ypres - The Deepest Roots And Darkest Blues
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Psycroptic
Arcturus
Paleshift - A Dream In The Distance

is that the same Paleshift as the guy in Evercold and Frozenglare?

 

[Perdition's Light]

YOB - The Unreal Never Lived

Can't wait to hear this.

Leng T'che - 2004

lol im dum

 

[Post_Scriptum]

Seriously... how can you get more intense than Obscura?
Well at least if Negativa is as good as Gorguts, there's something I'm looking forward to

I liked
Deathspell Omega - Kenôse
Fantômas - Suspended Animation
Antestor - The Forsaken
Crimson Moonlight - Veil of Rememberance
Ulver - Blood Inside
Beneath the Massacre - Evidence of Inequity
Despised Icon - The Healing Process
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Didn't like
Dream Theater - Octavarium

 

[byrne]

Psycroptic will be a ways off yet from what I have heard, not that I am really looking foward to the next release.

Great:
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

Good:
Kreator - Enemy of God
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour

Average / Redundant:
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis

Crap:
Ulver - Blood Inside

Yet to hear
- the full Opeth, although The Grand Conjuration didnt inspire me in the slightest.
- Candlemass s/t, haven't really had time this year to get anything new.
- Deathspell Omega, Kenose (as above)

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

You ranked Enemy Of God over Blood Inside?

 

[CF87]

Forgot about the new Candlemass,Immolation and Crowbar. Surprised no one talks about Crowbar ever.

 

[Melodeath]

Surprised no one talks about Crowbar ever.

Little too good for this forum.

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

Little too good for this forum.