best album- Overkill "Killbox 13"- just another great (they've had better, but no one came close this year) album by one of the best Thrash bands of all time, that's perhaps even more underrated than Testament
best song- Devil By The Tail (but I could easily name 4 or 5 other songs from this album that fit here)
best gig- The No Mercy Festival in Vienna (what a line-up: TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, PRO-PAIN, DARKANE, DIE APOKALYPTISCHE REITER and last and least fucking MARDUK, who didn't fit the company at all and could just carry the gear for the weakest of the other bands), 03.2004 and TESTAMENT in Warsaw, 08 2004.
biggest hope for 2004- duh, it's kinda obvious, although I also wait impatiently for the new Exo and Death Angel
biggest dream for 2004- Testament and Overkill touring together (or with Exodus) and a non-delayed release of the new T record (but these will prolly remain only dreams)