Best so far 2005???

Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Baroness - II
Isole - Forevermore
Shamelady - The Winter Days Were Nights
Burning Saviours - s/t
Planet Gemini - Wizard's Blood
Slough Feg - Atavism
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Grand Magus - Wolf's Return
 
Was Uaral's newest released 2005?

Jesu - Jesu so far is my favorite. Runners up include Despised Icon and Stargazer.
 
The complete best of this year, so far:

Manilla Road - Gates Of Fire
Slough Feg - Atavism
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Candlemass - Candlemass
Witchcraft - Firewood
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Stiny Plamenu - Zelezo Krváci
Countess - Spawn Of Steel

Did someone actually post a PAIN album? :lol:
 
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Mourning Beloveth - A Muderous Circus
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Kawir - Arai
Caedes - Blood, War, Perversion
Grimness - Increase Humanity Disgust
Morrigan - Headcult
Coram Lethe - The Gates of Oblivion

I am sure I am missing some.
 
Impressed with the Heathen demo as well as with the Graveland sample. Still waiting on Cryptopsy. Meshuggah lost me long ago. And Opeth's latest is a pleasant surprise after that devastatingly inauspicious sample a few months prior. And though it isn't an album, Pain of Salvation's Be DVD is an indispensable companion piece to last year's glowing opus.

I'll have to check out the Averse Sefira.

And on a non-metal aside, Frances the Mute is the sonic equivalent of ebola.
 
DiscipleOfPlato said:
And though it isn't an album, Pain of Salvation's Be DVD is an indispensable companion piece to last year's glowing opus.

Yes. There was no contest last year for album of the year.