Best album so far i 2003 ?

[Profano]

Waiting for new:
Dawn
Bishop of Hexen
Vintersorg "The focusing blur"
Borknagar

other good stuff:

Windir - Likferd

 

[lizard]

Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath

 

[TheGraveDigger]

So far my top 5 albums of 2003 are....

1. Kamelot - "Epica"
2. Overkill - "Killbox 13"
3. Seven Witches - "Passage To The Otherside"
4. Dream Evil - "Evilized"
5. Stratovarius - "Elements Part 1"

Other honorable mentions are Black Label Society - "The Blessed Hellride" and Sinner - "There Will Be Execution".

Also two great live albums have been released so far. Blaze - "As Live As It Gets" and Annihilator - "Double Live Annihilation".

Now here are the albums I am looking foward to...
Anthrax - "We've Come For You All" (It is out now in certain spots, I will pick this one up soon)

Helloween - "Rabbit Don't Come Easy"
Grave Digger - "Rheingold"
Iron Maiden - UNTITLED
Iced Earth - "The Glorious Burden"
Metallica - "St. Anger" (If what I heard is true this will be the shocker of the year)
King Diamond - "The Puppet Master"
W.A.S.P. - UNTITLED
Destruction - "Metal Discharge"
Destruction - Untitled Live Album
Krokus - "Rock The Block"
Blind Guardian - Untitled Live Album
Edguy - Burning Down The Opera (Live Album)
Gamma Ray - Skeletons In The Closet Tour Live Album

 

[The old Swede]

Waiting for new:
Dawn
Bishop of Hexen
Vintersorg "The focusing blur"
Borknagar

other good stuff:

Windir - Likferd

Yeah, the new Borknagar and Vintersorg albums will definately rule!

But at this moment my favourite of this year is Soilwork - Figure Number Five. I bought it today and it really KICKS ASS!!!!

 

[Harvester of Sorrow]

Vital Remains - Dechristianize

havent heard anything this good in awhile

 

[no country for old wainds]

Opeth - Damnation
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

I also need to get the new Devin Townsend, and I might get the new Enslaved.

 

[Nocturnal Emperor]

i forgot to mention cradle of filth - damnation and a day. this album is different from some of the others but it is amazing.

 

[Incendiare]

I have to go with Damnation and Viva Emptiness. I'm sure Enemies of Reality is going to be awesome.

 

[FailingAcension]

Children of Bodom, as of now!

 

[eternalhours]

Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

I've been in love with that album for weeks now

 

[eternalhours]

Forest Stream - Tears of Mortal Solitude

I love that album
*goes and gets it*

 

[dance_with_death]

COB - Hatecrew deathroll

or

AFI - Sing the sorrow

sing the sorrow is definetly a good album and i would say about the best this year.AFI are amazing live....its a quick choice....a lot of albums that came out this year have been really good...almost too hard to decide...

 

[VitalMarcus]

Wow. Only me and two others have Vital Remains at the top/in our lists. This should change soon.

 

[LuminousAether]

Solefald - In Harmonia Universali

 

[svenske kocken]

Opeth - Damnation
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Cult Of Luna - The Beyond
Dying Fetus - Stop At Nothing
Provenance - Still At Arms Length
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder

 

[union9]

My best of 2003 releases list (That I've heard) now go's like this:
ASESINO-Corridos De Muerte
CRADLE OF FILTH-Damnation And A Day
TOMAHAWK-Mit Gas

 

[J.]

Manes- Vilosophe has now claimed the top spot.

However, i should have the new Enslaved ina few days.

 

[LuminousAether]

The new Manes is indeed excellent, but the Ozzy-esque vocals and the fact that the last track is entirely made up of samples keeps me from voting it as the best album of the year. The new Solefald is just so absolutely godlike that it still enthralls me, months after I first heard it.

 

[J.]

The vocals don't bother me. Ozzy never even came to mind. But I do agree about the last track, it is entirely too long. However, if I knew what the dude was saying, that might help a bit.

 

[LuminousAether]

The vocals aren't bad at all, but after the cds over I'm just starting to get tired of them. If the cd was a little longer, I could easily see the tiring point breached. But those were just minor complaints, that album is definitely in my top 10 so far released this year.