fuck you, 2005 was a pretty good year

[lurch70]

Yep. I actually find myself reaching for this disc every so often. These guys might have had a bright future. They had some real nice ideas on this disc. Shame it fell apart.

Zod

not a bad disc, but I can't imagine where they could take something like this and evolve on a subsequent release ... it's really "novelty" metal

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

fucking Nile! *runs away*

 

[MajestikMøøse]

this is what it's looking like so far roughly

First Tier albums (ART)
1. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
Mournful Congregation - The Monad Of Creation
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Drudkh - The Swan Road

Second Tier albums (art, but on a lesser scale)
Triarii - Ars Militaria
Taake - Doedskvad
Temnozor - Folkstorm of the Azure Nights (50/50 album, actually: some songs are AMAZING but others are crud)
Hate Forest - Sorrow

eighty-second tier (entertainment)
Epoch of Unlight - The Continuum Hypothesis
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (maybe if I listen more... it might graduate to eighty-first tier)

Two-million-three-hundred-and-eighteen-thousand-seven-hundred-and-twenty-fifth Tier albums (bad entertainment)
November's Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor


and yet even further down:
SHIT SHIT SHIT WTF SHIT (I WANT TO POP MY EARDRUMS WITH A RUSTY SPORK THIS IS SO BAD)
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring

great Live Albums/DVDs
Der Blutharsch - Live at the Monastery CD
Katatonia - Live at Krakow DVD

EPs/Singles
Negura Bunget - Inarborat Kosmos
Current 93 - At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky
Peccatum - The Moribund People

Worthy Re-releases of note:
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind (Remastered 2CD)
Agalloch - Pale Folklore DLP (esp. wooden box ed.) and The Mantle DLP


awaiting to hear yet or haven't listened to enough
Sunn O))) - Black One
Reverend Bizarre - Crush The Insects
Pagan Hellfire - In Desolation, In Ruins
Wigrid - "…die Asche eines Lebens“
Graveland - Fire Chariot of Destruction
October Falls - Marras (2005, right?)
Jesu - Jesu
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived (probably top tier material, but I want to give it some more time)

 

[MajestikMøøse]

ok listening to Verisäkeet again tonight and it is BY FAR the best album of the year. Anyone who disagrees, or at least does not include this album somewhere in their top ten is a poser and will die of cancer.

 

[Krilons Resa]

No particular order.

TOPS:

Dantesco - De La Mano De La Muerte
Manilla Road - Gates of Fire
Isole - Forevermore
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
Confessor - Unraveled
Against Nature - Panoply & Appease
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
Centurions Ghost - A Sign of Things To Come
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Jotenheim - Jotenheim
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Madking Ludwig - Madking Ludwig
Planet Gemini - Wizard's Blood

OTHERS:

Adramelch - Broken History
Slough Feg - Atavism
Grand Magus - Wolf's Return
Burning Saviours - Burning Saviours
Witchcraft - Firewood
Rising Dust - Rising Dust
Baroness - II EP
Shamelady - The Winter Days Were Nights
Candlemass - Candlemass
Zero Hour - A Fragile Mind
Battleroar - Age of Chaos
Elwing - War
Mournful Congregation - Monad of Creation


NON-METAL:

The Evpatoria Report - Golevka (amazing!!!)
QOTSA - Lullabies To Paralyze
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP


AWAITING:

Hammers of Misfortune (please?!)
Twisted Tower Dire
The Gates of Slumber EP
Holy Martyr - Vis Et Honor


...that's what I can think of right now.

 

[JayKeeley]

TOPS:

Dantesco - De La Mano De La Muerte
Manilla Road - Gates of Fire
Isole - Forevermore
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
Confessor - Unraveled
Against Nature - Panoply & Appease
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
Centurions Ghost - A Sign of Things To Come
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Jotenheim - Jotenheim
Madking Ludwig - Madking Ludwig

Fuck me, I've somehow missed the Manilla Road entirely.

OK, interesting list. I especially like the fact that I haven't even heard of 6 of those bands. What do I need as a priority? Just point me in the right direction....

AWAITING:

Hammers of Misfortune (please?!)

At this rate, it's not looking like an '05 release. No publicity for it whatsoever.


OK here's what I've got thus far, in no order (scoring 8.5 or 9/10):

Slough Feg - Atavism
Primordial - Gathering Wilderness
Witchcraft - Firewood
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Rudra - Bhramavidya

Jury's still out on these:

Biomechanical
Bruce Dickinson
Ackercocke
Graveland
Grand Magus
Allen-Lande
Thyrfing
Naglfar
Vreid (probably a sleeper hit)

Fallen off the radar (floating around 6/10, some good tracks, some blah):

-Novembers Doom (if I want me some ND, I reach for "The Knowing")
-Nokturnal Mortum (I liked "Taste of Victory" without the interruptions)
-Drudkh (oh christ no, if this were anyone else it would have been ignored)
-Opeth (nice try but no cigar -- the fact is, Deliverance was better)
-Helloween (reminding me of how much I dread the sequel to Mindcrime)
-Hypocrisy (boring as heck)
-Candlemass (average at best)
-Kreator (surely THE disappointment of the year, considering the enormity of Violent Revolution)
-Dark Tranquility (not bad, but haven't listened to it since I reviewed it and gave it a 7/10, so now I'd say it's a 6)

Guilty Pleasures (a few tracks I like to crank, but the album would never make the list):

-Nile (it's their weakest yet, but it's a polished gem of death metal nevertheless)
-Gamma Ray (obviously, when it comes to Eurovision Song Contestants, these are the gods of singalong anthems, next to ABBA of course)
-Nevermore (containing one of the best songs of the year no doubt)
-Yngwie Malmsteen (well, it's his best in years that's for sure)
-Judas Priest ('cos it's Priest!!!)


I really wanted to include the new Pelican but I can't honestly say it's better than Australasia, so it's not going to make the cut. It's also one of those albums that I might enjoy in a year from now, when it all suddenly 'clicks'.

No 10/10 albums so far this year.

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

AT THE TOP!

Ulver - Blood Inside
Isole - Forevermore
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds that Go Undone
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
Dark Tranquility - Character
Taake - Doedskvad
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
Candlemass - S/T
Solefald - Red For Fire - An Icelandic Odyssey Part I
Deathspell Omega - Kenose
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

AT THE MIDDLE

Slough Feg - Atavism
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Wetwork - Synod
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Winter Of Apokalypse - Solitary Winter Night
Gehenna - WW
Ondskapt - Dödens Evangelium
Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

 

[E-bortion]

hehe, and youre on bottom *sodomizes*

 

[Six-winged Seraph]

with Opeth

 

[E-bortion]

now i feel dirty, dirty and wrong

 

[J.]

Nok Mort
Morrigan
Jesu

THose are top 3 for me so far. I really think that is Morrigan's best release, and the Jesu full length is amazing. Nok Mort is Nok Mort and always great.

Others I really enjoy: Rudra, Clutch, Spiritual Beggars, ...

Still waiting for Obtest, Graveland, Mael Mordha, Bolt THrower (ordered), Hellveto (ordered), and maybe Summoning and Scald.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Fuck me, I've somehow missed the Manilla Road entirely.

OK, interesting list. I especially like the fact that I haven't even heard of 6 of those bands. What do I need as a priority? Just point me in the right direction....

For you?


Dantesco - De La Mano De La Muerte
Manilla Road - Gates of Fire
Isole - Forevermore

Probably those three. But, seriously, all of them.

 

[AsModEe]

Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness

Ahah... I read " Satanic Webmaster "

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Top 20 until now:

Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars
Shadow Gallery - Room V
Spiritual Beggars - Demons
Isole - Forevermore
Witchcraft - Firewood
Thee Plague Of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
November's Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Redemption - The Fullness Of Time
Circulus - The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Ellipsis - From Beyond Thematics
Veni Domine - IIII: The Album Of Labour
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds
Burning Saviours - s/t
Manilla Road - Gates Of Fire

If Ion Vein's "Reigning Memories" counts for this year, then the album is on the top. I probably listened to everything that interested me, except the new Confessor.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I probably listened to everything that interested me, except the new Confessor.

DO IT...

 

[Birkenau]

2005 sucked for me, Sunn O))) - Black1 was really good, new Taake was ok, samez with the new Sol Invictus.

Everything else was a vagigantic disappointment

 

[Krilons Resa]

2005 sucked for me, Sunn O))) - Black1 was really good, new Taake was ok, samez with the new Sol Invictus.

Everything else was a vagigantic disappointment

Dude, wtf...what have you listened to?

 

[IOfTheStorm]

2005 sucked for me, Sunn O))) - Black1 was really good, new Taake was ok, samez with the new Sol Invictus.

Everything else was a vagigantic disappointment

fake user

 

[Birkenau]

Dude, wtf...what have you listened to?

Eh? This is probably my best of 2005, but best =/= good. Actually, I really liked the new October Falls cd, and the Strid demo compilation.

Sunn O))) - Black1
October Falls - Marras
Shining - The Eerie Cold
Taake - "...Doedskvad"
Sol Invictus - The Devil's Steed
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Ulver - Blood Inside
Twilight - Twilight
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Averse Sefira - Tetragrammatical Astygmata
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Merzbow - Merzbuddha
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Napalm Death - The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code

 

[MajestikMøøse]

The NWW was a re-release if I'm not mistaken. Still good stuff though.