Best of 2005 - new, old, on the fence, disappointing, and still to come

[En Vind Av Sorg]

*bump*

sweet, I just noticed that V:28 has got a new album coming out in May.

I take it you liked Nonanthropgenic then?

 

[JayKeeley]

I take it you liked Nonanthropgenic then?

http://www.royalcarnage.com/Reviews/blackwinterday/v28/anthro_rev.htm

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Nonanthropogenic was cool. Nothing original, but has some solid groove and good songs. I'm interested in hearing what they've brought to the table this time.

 

[Black Winter Day]

The best thing about V:28 is their layered sound. All you fucks should read my review!

 

[NAD]

The new Queens of the Stone Age kicks my dick in, could be the best album Josh Homme has ever done, including Kyuss. At first I just thought it was typical Queens, but there's another level going on and the guitar work is mind boggling at times. Plus it has Billy Fucking Gibbons man, come on!

New Ulver next month, anybody know what day? Jester site just says April 2005. ME WANTS!!!

 

[MFJ]

Yeah man, that new Queens of the Stone Age is really really good. I'm very upset because they were playing in Hartford tonight and I couldn't go

 

[NAD]

I'm not going to get to see them out here, tix went by lightning quick. Sucks.

I think a whole lot of people here would dig the new Queens even if you aren't a fan of their previous stuff. The fucking leads are KILLER. I just wish I had my own copy but it's still in transit.

 

[MFJ]

Yeah I need to pick it up. The band is incredible all around, fo sho.

 

[J.]

new Unsane album coming out this year, not that any of you care because you all just aren't in the know.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I can't read this whole fucken thread! Can someone summarize?

 

[Nate The Great]

new Unsane album coming out this year, not that any of you care because you all just aren't in the know.

Except me! I'm cool too!

 

[Nate The Great]

I can't read this whole fucken thread! Can someone summarize?

The only albums worth owning so far this year are as follows:

Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Cursed - II
Open Hand - You and Me
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
Jesu - s/t

I'm sure the new Nile will be worth it as well. Plus the new Unsane should be sweet.

This is basically a summary of this entire thread. Don't bother listening to anybody else. Oh . . . and the new Soilwork isn't nearly as bad as GayKeeley would have you believe.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Nate, thanks (though it comes with a grain of salt)

I could care less about Soilwork; ever since Speed wouldn't autograph my bewbies.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Ohh I know that BWD liked V:28, I was adressing herr Møøse. BWD snuck a post inbetween there. V:28 is really cool, they have a cold, machine like quality to some of their songs I like.

 

[Ellestin]

Here my 2005 albums:

BURIED INSIDE -Chronoclast
CALLISTO - True Nature Unfolds
JESU - Jesu
MERCURY REV - The Secret Migration
MOONSORROW - Verisäkeet
PRIMORDIAL - The Gathering Wilderness
TAAKE - Hordaland Doedskvad

2005 hasn't been the crushing vintage thus far, but the few good albums that have been spawned in the first quarter are good!
Even the new Mercury Rev, at first a brutal let-down, is starting to reveal very nice qualities with time.

To the not-yet-released stuff, I'll mention Dredg, Drudkh and Elend (if they prove true to their word about releasing album in 1-year pace) as pretty high-ranking on my expectation list.

 

[General Zod]

Best new releases:

Primordial "The Gathering Wilderness" - their best yet.
Dark Tranquillity "Character" - possibly their best work.
Kamelot "The Black Halo" - infinitely better than "Karma"

Best old shit that I'm only just getting round to:

Badlands "Dusk" - "Voodoo Highway" turned me off to this band. Apparently it was just the sophmore jinx.
Pink Cream 69 "Sonic Dynamite" - never much cared for retro bands, but these guys do it right.
Susperia "Unlimited" - this would have been in my Top of 2004.

On the fence:

Communic "Conspiracy in Mind"
Kreator "Enemy of God"
Lanfear "aNother gOlden rAge"
Novembers Doom "The Pale Haunt Departure"

Disappointing!!!:

Steve Vai "Real Illusions" - Steve, please, STOP singing, you suck at it!

Still to Come:

Nevermore - new CD
Nevermore - "Enemies" remix
Opeth
Russell Allen - solo CD
Sympony X
Vanden Plas
Wolverine
Zero Hour

Zod

 

[MajestikMøøse]

here's a summary which is quite obviously incomplete.

Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Novembers Doom - Pale Haunt Departure
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
James Murphy - Convergence
Bloodbath - Nightmares made of Flesh
Kreator - Enemy of God
Slough Feg - Atavism
Hate Forest - Sorrow
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Taake - ...Doedskvad
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Hammerfall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genisis
V:28 - SoulSaviour
Negura Bunget - Om
Woodtemple - Hidden In Eternal Shadow
Wigrid "…die Asche eines Lebens“
Infernum "Farewell"
Abyssic Hate "A decade of hate"
Nile - Annihilation of the World
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
October Falls - Marras
Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
Jesu - Jesu
Ulver - Blood Inside
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Cursed - II
Open Hand - You and Me
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
CALLISTO - True Nature Unfolds
MERCURY REV - The Secret Migration
Kamelot "The Black Halo"
Steve Vai "Real Illusions"
Communic "Conspiracy in Mind"
Evoken - Antithesis of Light
Queens of the Stone Age - ???
Unsane - ???
Summoning - ???
Dissection - ???
Candlemass - s/t
Opeth - ???
Coil - ???
Tenhi - ???

 

[Henrik Main]

Exmortem and Defleshed also have new records out, but I'm probably the only one who likes those bands. :\

 

[Nico]

Abyssic Hate "A decade of hate"

That reminds me, the "Medication" full length should also be out this year (2 years late?)

Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation

If you like these guys, check out their avant-garde death metal band "Stargazer". The debut full length was released a week or two ago.

 

[J.]

all i have so far is the new Evoken, Dark Tranquillity, Primordial and Moonsorrow. at least I that's all the 2005 stufff I have.