Best Albums of 2004 (so far)

insidethefall said:
New megadeth is crap, how can you attempt to create thrash metal with no balls?
What a ridiculous statement!
It is not claimed to be thrash, you are pigeonholing Megadeth of 2004
It also IMO happens to be their best album since "Youthanasia"
 
Dismember - Where ironcrosses grow
Insomnium - Since the day it all came down
My dying bride - Songs of darkness, words of light
Ensiferum - Iron
Hypocrisy - The arrival
The black league - Man's ruin revisited
Before the dawn - 4:17 am
 
I seem to remember a similar posting on the Anathema board awhile back. At any rate, so far, my list looks something like this:

1. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
2. Borknagar - Epic
3. My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
4. Today Is The Day - Kiss The Pig
5. Dark Tranquillity - Exposures...(Sure it's full of old b-sides, but they are just amazing!)
6. Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B
7. Impaled Nazarene - All That You Fear
8. Hypocrisy - The Arrival
9. Agalloch - The Grey EP (Only two tracks, but The Lodge(Dismantled) is utter brilliance)
10. Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn

Now, this list will undoubtedly change, so here are a few upcoming releases that will do just that:

Isis - TBA
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Paradise Lost - TBA
Solefald - TBA
Age of Silence - TBA(or maybe I forgot?)
Arcturus - TBA(I don't fucking care is Garm isn't in it anymore. It will still conquer.)
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
Fantomas - TBA
Pelican - TBA
Samael - TBA
Jesu(new J.K. Broadrick/Ted Parsons project) - TBA
 
MDB - Songs of darkness... are the best CD from 2004 I've bought this far..

But do not forget Dissection have a new album coming up, and it might come 2004.. And hopefully it will kick as much butt as their old releases.
 
The new My Dying Bride, Suffocation, Into Eternity(?), Anata, Drudkh and Neurosis albums to name a few. Hopefully the new Bloodbath record.
 
My favorites this year, so far...

Marillion - Marbles (2-disc)
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Ministry - Houses Of The Molé
Finntroll - Nattfödd
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Edguy - Hellfire Club
Death Angel - The Art Of Dying
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Fish - Field Of Crows
 
Deliverance6 said:
Ive been racking my brain to think of a decent alblum that was released this year and since Blut Aus Nord was actually not released this year I would have to say that the only other thing that has truly impressed me is Subterreanean Masquerades ep -Temporary Psychotic state- Check it out.
I heartily agree with that. I checked the Subterranean Masquerades EP out on a whim at The End Records and was very pleasantly surprised by it. What a great listen! Definitely worth checking out.
 
DISILLUSION-Back To Times Of Splendor
AYREON-The Human Equation
AMON AMARTH-Fate Of Norns
NIGHTWISH-Once
 
Best so far:
Meshuggah - I
My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness words of Light

Wanting to check out asap:
The new Paatos
The new Amon Amarth

Patiently awaiting:
Bloodbath - Nightmares made Flesh
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
 
1. ORPHANED LAND - Mabool
VOID OF SILENCE - Human Antithesis
MORGION - Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth

2. MDB - Songs Of Darkness...
AMARAN - Pristine In Bondage
ESOTERIC - Subconscious Dissollution...

3. AYREON - Human Equation
SECRETS OF THE MOON - Carved In Stigmata Wounds
ANCIENT WISDOM - Cometh Doom, Cometh Death

4. ENSIFERUM - Iron
THE VISION BLEAK - The Deathship Has A New Captain
ROOT - Madness Of The Graves

must check these ones:

NOCTE OBDUCTA - Nektar, Teil 1
LAKE OF TEARS - Black Brick Road
AMON AMARTH - Fate Of Norns