Im bored, lets play pick the best of the year so far and add what you are looking forward to for the rest of it 
Best of the year so far IMHO are:
Weve Come For You All - Anthrax - Best Anthrax cd ever, I dont care if you say otherwise, you are lying! This is so good, I was really surprised, especially considering how far into their career they are! Brilliant stuff
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Damnation And A Day - Cradle Of Filth - I dont know what it is exactly, I just really like it, really atmospheric and spooky. He is a fucking awful vocalist though, but he switches between growls, singing, screeching and yelling so much you sorta dont mind. Succeeds in spite of the vocalist lets say, awesome riffage too. Ill go see them if they tour here
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Enemies Of Reality - Nevermore - Like all Nevermore this took a about a week to grow on me, but I love it now, muddy production but thats ok, the songs kick ass. Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday sounds like Creed, its cool
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Soul Temptation - Brainstorm - Jon Schaffer better watch out, these guys will kick his ass if they make a better release than this one next time around. Awesome heavy metal, think Something Wicked This Way Comes crossed with Grave Digger, but catchier. Its got a free concert dvd with it as well, easily one of the best of the year
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The Impossibility Of Reason - Chimaira - Bloody stupid metal fans lumping these guys into the numetal genre and ignoring them. Slayer crossed with Machinehead and BRILLIANT. Southy especially will like this one. I wish more people would buy it, but its like asking a Manowar fan to buy Slipknot seemingly. Silly buggers. Anyway, awesome cd
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In Defiance Of Existence - Old Mans Child - Like Dimmu Borgir but thrashier and with more keyboards, id buy it and so should you, dont you think? Yes. So, do that then, its a great cd
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Epica - Kamelot - Not as good as the almighty godly Karma cd, but very very close. Best ballad ive heard in a long time in Wander, and well, tis got Roy Khan singing on it, who is second only to the almight godly Ronnie James Dio in the majestic vocals stakes. Its not silly power metal its in a class of its own, vocally and musically. Go on, buy it, it will thank you for many years with its metally goodness
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Live Kreation dvd/cd - Kreator/thrash overload, gotta love it. No Replicas of life on it though, fucking wankers.
Honorable mentions:
Double Live Annihilation - Annihilator - If you like thrash it doesnt get much better than the 2nd cd on here
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Disappointments of the year:
Dance Of Death cover - See the St. Anger review.
St. Anger - Metallica - A big steaming fucking turd. but we have been through all this so lets move on.
The Blessed Hellride - Black Label Society - Actually starting to quite like this now for some reason, but I dont think its as good as it could have been, but I think im lying and ill really like it in a week.
As Live As It Gets - Blaze - Good, but not that good, prefer the studio versions really, I was expecting Blaze to sound much heavier live but they didnt. Still good but. Not great though.
Looking forward to:
Death Cult Armageddon - Dimmu Borgir - Have the whole album on mp3 and it sounded muddy as hell, then I found out they sent out the promos on cassette to stop piracy, so the mp3s were ripped from that and all was well again. Will go close to getting album of the year, other black metal should be embarrassed to show themselves in the face of the onslaught that is DB, basically a movie score crossed with black metal. Genius. Will lead to legions of black metal fans decrying DB as "not true black metal" and "untr00 posers" so you know it must be great!
Anthems Of Rebellion - Arch Enemy - Downloaded the track We Will Rise from the CM page and its awesome. I heard a track off their previous album and the vocals are awful, which style does she usually sing in? Perhaps I just heard the wrong song because We Will Rise is fab.
Dance Of Death - Iron Maiden - Natch.
Heretic - Morbid Angel - Heard one track on the Earache website and its cool. Havent made a bad album yet (well maybe Gateways, maybe...) and I dont think they will start now. Hopefully he will write a song that mentions The Ancient Ones because I dont think he gives them enough press.
The Glorious Burden - Iced Earth: Please be good, please be good, please be good.
Best of the year so far IMHO are:
Weve Come For You All - Anthrax - Best Anthrax cd ever, I dont care if you say otherwise, you are lying! This is so good, I was really surprised, especially considering how far into their career they are! Brilliant stuff
!
Damnation And A Day - Cradle Of Filth - I dont know what it is exactly, I just really like it, really atmospheric and spooky. He is a fucking awful vocalist though, but he switches between growls, singing, screeching and yelling so much you sorta dont mind. Succeeds in spite of the vocalist lets say, awesome riffage too. Ill go see them if they tour here
!
Enemies Of Reality - Nevermore - Like all Nevermore this took a about a week to grow on me, but I love it now, muddy production but thats ok, the songs kick ass. Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday sounds like Creed, its cool
!
Soul Temptation - Brainstorm - Jon Schaffer better watch out, these guys will kick his ass if they make a better release than this one next time around. Awesome heavy metal, think Something Wicked This Way Comes crossed with Grave Digger, but catchier. Its got a free concert dvd with it as well, easily one of the best of the year
!
The Impossibility Of Reason - Chimaira - Bloody stupid metal fans lumping these guys into the numetal genre and ignoring them. Slayer crossed with Machinehead and BRILLIANT. Southy especially will like this one. I wish more people would buy it, but its like asking a Manowar fan to buy Slipknot seemingly. Silly buggers. Anyway, awesome cd
!
In Defiance Of Existence - Old Mans Child - Like Dimmu Borgir but thrashier and with more keyboards, id buy it and so should you, dont you think? Yes. So, do that then, its a great cd
!
Epica - Kamelot - Not as good as the almighty godly Karma cd, but very very close. Best ballad ive heard in a long time in Wander, and well, tis got Roy Khan singing on it, who is second only to the almight godly Ronnie James Dio in the majestic vocals stakes. Its not silly power metal its in a class of its own, vocally and musically. Go on, buy it, it will thank you for many years with its metally goodness
!
Live Kreation dvd/cd - Kreator/thrash overload, gotta love it. No Replicas of life on it though, fucking wankers.
Honorable mentions:
Double Live Annihilation - Annihilator - If you like thrash it doesnt get much better than the 2nd cd on here
!
Disappointments of the year:
Dance Of Death cover - See the St. Anger review.
St. Anger - Metallica - A big steaming fucking turd. but we have been through all this so lets move on.
The Blessed Hellride - Black Label Society - Actually starting to quite like this now for some reason, but I dont think its as good as it could have been, but I think im lying and ill really like it in a week.
As Live As It Gets - Blaze - Good, but not that good, prefer the studio versions really, I was expecting Blaze to sound much heavier live but they didnt. Still good but. Not great though.
Looking forward to:
Death Cult Armageddon - Dimmu Borgir - Have the whole album on mp3 and it sounded muddy as hell, then I found out they sent out the promos on cassette to stop piracy, so the mp3s were ripped from that and all was well again. Will go close to getting album of the year, other black metal should be embarrassed to show themselves in the face of the onslaught that is DB, basically a movie score crossed with black metal. Genius. Will lead to legions of black metal fans decrying DB as "not true black metal" and "untr00 posers" so you know it must be great!
Anthems Of Rebellion - Arch Enemy - Downloaded the track We Will Rise from the CM page and its awesome. I heard a track off their previous album and the vocals are awful, which style does she usually sing in? Perhaps I just heard the wrong song because We Will Rise is fab.
Dance Of Death - Iron Maiden - Natch.
Heretic - Morbid Angel - Heard one track on the Earache website and its cool. Havent made a bad album yet (well maybe Gateways, maybe...) and I dont think they will start now. Hopefully he will write a song that mentions The Ancient Ones because I dont think he gives them enough press.
The Glorious Burden - Iced Earth: Please be good, please be good, please be good.
