Albums of 2004

[Erik]

I'll list everything "good" from this year that I've heard and we'll see what actually ends up on the list:

Drudkh "Autumn Aurora"
Loits "Vere Kutre Kohustab"
Morgion "Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth"
Esoteric "Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum"
Dismember "Where Ironcrosses Grow"
Countess "Heilig Vuur"
Graveland "Dawn of Iron Blades"
Mar de Grises "The Tatterdemalion Express"

Need to check out still:
The new Void of Silence, the new Darkthrone, the Velvet Cacoon

NOT Blut Aus Nord (1. it's 2003 2. it's shitty)

I haven't heard much thrash/trad metal from this year... I really fucking want to put Kreator up there, but alas! it's 2005 :<

Watain - Casus Luciferi
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Sorry, 2003 the lot of 'em

 

[no country for old wainds]

The Chasm Deathspell Omega Graveland Drudkh Countess Forefather End.

 

[Erik]

Kindly tell me about the new Forefather.

 

[opethmaniac]

Mayhem
Echobrain
Gojira (Live)
Winds
Marduk
Shape Of Despair
BLoodbath
Pain Of Salvation
and surly many more i can't think about at the moment...even if it's quite dead at the moment (end of the year) i think 2004 has been a gorgeous year for Metal...

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Pelican was 2003.

Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
Sunn O))) - White2
Cephalectomy - Eclipsing The Dawn
Axis Of Advance - Obey
Electric Wizard - We Live
Wall Of Sleep - Slow, But Not Dead

Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath (many may not enjoy this release but I love the old school punk-esque feel/attitude to it)

I think it's good. And the cover rocks.

 

[Necro Joe]

Awesome:

Isis - Panopticon
Mastodon - Leviathan
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Enslaved - Isa
Morgion - Cloaked by ages, crowned in earth
Converge - You fail me
Mare - Mare

Really great:

Old Man Gloom - Christmas
Arsis - A celebration of guilt
Caphranum - Fractured
Dismember - Where ironcrosses grow
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
Necrophagist- Epitaph
Electric Wizard - We Live
Neurosis - The eye of every storm
Keelhaul - Subject to change without notice

Not as good as I'd hoped:

Countess - Heilig Vuur
Vehemence - Helping the world to see
DEP - Miss Machine

But I've yet to hear (or at least hear properly) the new albums from: The Chasm, Drudkh, Manticora, Behemoth, Pain of Salvation, Graveland, Shape of Dispair, Suffocation, Blut Aus Nord and Exodus.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I haven't had the new Forefather long enough to give any kind of in depth analysis, but so far it sounds like a slightly more developed and interesting release than "The Fighting Man" (the only other one I have), though along the same lines. I can see myself really getting into this one.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Watain - Casus Luciferi

Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Sorry, 2003 the lot of 'em

Actually A Sun that Never Sets was a 2001 release. Perhaps he meant "The Eye of Every Storm"

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

I haven't heard much thrash/trad metal from this year... I really fucking want to put Kreator up there, but alas! it's 2005 :<

Dude, you NEED to check out Drunkard. If anybody on this board would dig it, you would.

W.A.S.P. - The Neon God Part 1
W.A.S.P. - The Neon God Part 2

Fuck, that's right. Part 1 is on my "Worth buying" list, while Part 2 has the place of honor on my "Need to hear" list, considering I heard a couple songs from it live and they rocked the hizzouse.

 

[merci]

Ayreon - The Human Equation
Alexisonfire - Watch Out!
Raunchy - Confusion Bay
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Riverside - Out Of Myself
The Ocean - Fluxion
Behemoth - Demigod

Thought it would be better if I kept it down to 10.

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

Samael- Reign of Light

 

[Erik]

Samael- Reign of Light

More like Reign of Shit, alaoloololollolool!

 

[Ol' Dirty Bastard]

You should do stand up.

 

[Christie_fell]

well, since Kreator leaked over the net, I think it would be acceptable to establish them as a 2004 release, Erik

 

[Cynical]

Graveland- The Dawn of Iron Blades
Esoteric- Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum
Deathspell Omega- Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspiece
Crimson Massacre- Promo 2004
Krieg- Patrick Bateman

 

[bmh]

Too many to mention, but Isis and Deathspell Omega come to mind.

 

[AsModEe]

I tried to get into Drunkard but I don't know... there's something missing in their songs that prevents me from liking them.

I still need to listen to some Deathspell Omega... can't find any mp3s anywhere.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Excellent:

Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
Reverend Bizarre/Orodruin 12" Split
Nortt - Gudsforladt
Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
Tyranny - Bleak Vistae
Isis - Panopticon
Ufomammut - Snailking
Nocte Obducta - Nektar: Teil 1
Graveland - Dawn of Iron Blades
Nasheim - Evighet/Undergang
Uaral - Sounds of Pain
Hate Forest - Battlefields

Great:

Morgion - Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth
Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
Neurosis - Eye of Every Storm
YOB - Illusion of Motion
Ocean Chief - Oden Sessions
Angantyr - Sejr
Lunar Aurora - Elixir of Sorrow
Eyes of Ligeia - What The Moon Brings
Bergthron - Faust Fur Faust
The Gates of Slumber - The Awakening
Hordes of The Lunar Eclipse - Dancing Demons in The Grey-Lit Glade
Sin Origin - Night Aeternal
Brocas Helm - Defender of The Crown
Loits - Vere Kutre Kohustab

Good:

Unearthly Trance - In The Red
Electric Wizard - We Live
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror

Non-Metal:

Elend - Sunwar The Dead
Witchcraft - s/t


I listen to too much fucking music.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Ah, I forgot about Angantyr's Sejr. Great album.

 

[byrne]

Drudkh - Autumn Auroral; what is so good about this album/band? I havent heard it, so I'm not being sarcastic or anything, I have noticed that many have listed it.