It's still October but fuck it, what are your top albums of 2005?

[Brett]

Candlemass - Candlemass
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms of God
Between The Buried and Me - Alaska
God Forbid - IV The Constitution of Treason
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Russell Allen - Atomic Soul

What say you?

 

[Loner]

Behemoth- Demigod (I know it was an 04 in Europe, but it was an 05 release here, so I'm calling it one)
Nevermore- This Godless Endeavor
Hate Eternal- I, Monarch
Nile- Annihilation of the Wicked
Origin- Echoes of Decimation
Kreator- Enemy of God

New Aborted and Bloodbath are both pretty damn good too.

 

[rebirth]

its amazing....
my list soon

 

[Captain Beard]

Candlemass - Candlemass
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Symphorce - Godspeed
Spiritual Beggars - Demons

 

[Necromunchkin]

So far... (no particular order)

Confessor "Sour Times" EP
Blood Ritual "Black Grimoire"
Drudkh "Lebedynyy Shlyakh: The Swan Road"
Hate Forest "Sorrow"
Nevermore "This Godless Endeavor"
Cryptopsy "Once Was Not"
Typhus "Profound Blasphemous Proclamation"

 

[Minion520]

PRIMORDIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GATHERING WILDERNESS!!!!!!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

PRIMORDIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GATHERING WILDERNESS!!!!!!

This man speaks great wisdom and many exclaimation marks.

 

[Necromunchkin]

He does at that. I forgot the new primordial *tsk*

 

[Lightbulbsun]

Deadwing - Tree
Ghost Reveries -Opeth
Are You Dead Yet - Bodom (can't wait for the US release.)
The Godless Endeavor - Nevermore

 

[Enemy242]

Are You Dead Yet - Bodom (can't wait for the US release.)

one of the biggest disappointments of 2005 imo

 

[Shpongled]

Despised Icon - The Healing Process
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Soulfly - Dark Ages (this album surpised the hell out of me)
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
God Dethroned - The Lair of the White Worm

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
SymPhorce- Godspeed
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Exodus - Shovel headed Kill Machine
BRAIN STORM - Liquid Monster ( pretty close to the top , if not number one)
Dragon Land - Starfall
Firewind- Forged by Fire
Wizard- Magic Cirlce
Black Majesty-Silent Company
Stormwarrior-Northern Rage

 

[CF87]

Cathedral 'the garden of unearthly delights'
Opeth 'ghost reveries'
Confessor 'unravelled'
Dark Tranquallity "character'
Candlemass 's/t'

Nevermore,Bloodbath

.. the list continue's

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

New Nevermore
New Cryptopsy
New Hypocrisy
New Hate Eternal
New Kamelot
uhhh
Is The Battle this year? If so then that too.
Was Demons and Wizards this year?
Heard new Gamma Gay is pretty good, but I don't like them.
More that I can't think of right now.

 

[ScientistOfDarkness]

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

 

[Will Bozarth]

Dog Bone Sanctuary
Nevermore
Candlemass
Strapping Young Lad
Green Carnation
Porcupine Tree
November's Doom
Antimatter

 

[Morfiend]

(in no order)

Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Blackfield - Blackfield

Honorable mentions:

The Mars Volta - Frances of the Mute
SYL - Alien
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

 

[Brooks]

Despised Icon - The Healing Process

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost

There's a new Shpongle album?!?!?!? WHY WAS I NOT AWARE!!!!!!!!!



Are you Shpongled is BRILLIANT, I still listen to it at least once a week.

 

[azal]

ummm....

meshuggah - catch 33

 

[Larf03]

Kreator - Enemy Of God
Nuclear Assault - Third World Genocide
Flotsam And Jetsam - Dreams of Death
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
Candlemass - Candlemass
Beyond Twilight - Section X
Circus Maximus - Chapter 1
Exodus - SHovel Headed Killing Machine
Destruction - The Inventor Of Evil
Overkill - Relixiv