Best Release of 2003

[Demonspell]

im surprised more people arent saying moonsorrow

they fucking rule

Moonsorrow is definitely on my top 10 for 2003...here are some others in no order

Enslaved - Below The Lights
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Dead Soul Tribe - A Murder Of Crows
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Evergrey - Recreation Day

 

[Dan]

Here's my top 20:
1.Green Carnation - A Blessing in Disguise
2.Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
3.Soilwork - Figure Number Five
4.Misery Index - Retaliate
5.Passenger - Passenger
6.From Autumn to Ashes - The Fiction We Live
7.Opeth - Damnation
8.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
9.Woods of Ypres - Against the Seasons
10.Wyrd - Vargtimmen pt. 1
11.Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
12.Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation
13.Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
14.Lamb of God - As The Palace Burns
15.Darkness Remains - Lamia
16.Ephel Duath - The Painters Pallete
17.Nasum - Helvete
18.Virgin Black - Elegant...and Dying
19.Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
20.Blood Red Throne - Affiliated with Suffering

 

[Morfiend]

I forgot As the Palaces Burn! Great album.

 

[ChrisEmerson]

i quite like that woods of ypres album actually. against the seasons is 2002 though isnt it?

 

[Hypnos]

Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

 

[damiomen]

01. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
02. Opeth -Damnation
03. The Gathering - Souvenirs
04. Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
05. Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
06. Tiamat - Prey
07. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
08. Sam Robert - We Were Born In A Flame
09. Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
10. White Stripes - Elephant

 

[Fionn]

Devin Townsend Band - Accelerated Evolution
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Greg Howe, Victor Wooten and Dennis Chambers - Extraction
OSI - Office of Strategic Influence

and my one favourite release of last year, even though it's a reissue, is:

Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane and Jeff Sipe - Temporal Analogues of Paradise

 

[Servo]

Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

 

[crimsonfloyd]

If everyone else is doing top fives I'm gonna do it too, but keep in mind I have yet to hear the new Enslaved, but from the parts I've heard it definatly has potential to make the list:
1)A Silver Mount Zion-This is Our Punk Rock/ Several Rusted Satalites Gather + Sing
2)Opeth-Damnation
3)King Crimson-The Power to Believe
4)The Mars Volta-De Louced in the Comatorium
5)Dimmu Borgir-Death Cult Aramagedon

 

[cityofthemoon666]

APC-13th Step
The Mars Volta- De-loused In The Comatorium
Opeth- Damnation
Dimmu Borgir-DCA
The Butterfly Effect-Begins Here

 

[Dev]

Elend - Winds Devouring Men ( crimsonfloyd check this out , according to your avatar , you may like this)
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Burst - Prey On Life (amazing)
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
The Mars Volta , Manes , Negura Bunget etc..

 

[MadTinus]

Although they are two completely different albums in every aspect, my vote is between Opeth - Damnation and Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon based on shear enjoyability.

These are also my 2 faves of 2003, Opeth being the number one.

 

[Dan]

i quite like that woods of ypres album actually. against the seasons is 2002 though isnt it?

I checked it out, and you're right. Fiddlesticks.

 

[Nico]

The Butterfly Effect-Begins Here

Hah... wierd shit that anyone would be into these guys... my band played support for them... but i rekon all their songs sound the same

 

[loebs]

Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Exhumed: Anatomy is Destiny
Impaled-Haemmorrahge: Dimentias Rex
Cryptopsy: None so Live
Kill Hannah: For never and ever
Spawn of Possession: Cabinet
Nevermore: Eneymies of Reality

were the albums that stood out for me, not even my favorite band Morbid Angel caught my eye

 

[The Dude]

Puddle of Mudd - Life on Display



Hahaha, only joking.


It was actually released early 2004.

 

[PeeWee1473]

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

 

[ggggggu]

I liek the same albums as mikael.

 

[Fade to Black]

I CANT BELIEVE NO ONE HAS MENTIONED PSYCROPTIC?!???
if they did then meh...

1.A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
2.Old Man's Child - In Defiance of Existence
3.Machinehead - Through the Ashes of Empires
4.Opeth - Damnation
5.Psycroptic - Scepter of the Ancients
6.The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
7.Astriaal - Renascent Misanthropy
8.Daysend - Severance
9.Children of Bodom - Hatecrew Deathroll
10.Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon