My Year End Best of List

[stevekachinsky]

Well, I figured out I didn't buy anything this year or even request freebies. Oops! I mean when you have the equivalent of 1500 CD's in mp3 files do you really need anymore music? But in 2005 I bought stuff by Buffalo Springfield, Steve Marriott, The Flaming Lips, Yardbirds, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria and Arch Enemy. You know the Arch Enemy is really great classic rock if you take away the growling. I did hear the Killers new one and it's pretty good. Also, hearing cool bands on myspace when they request us as friends. Gun Barrel, 7th Son, CC Rock Band and Arrest are really good. Frank DeHaven is an amazing vocalist. What did y'all listen to?

PS - of course I listened to Zep, Priest, Queen, Metallica, etc. like I have for the last 30 years!

 

[Hawk]

Well; here is what listened to and liked best:


Top 25 cd's

01 Zero Hour - Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
02 Seventh Wonder - Waiting In The Wings
03 Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
04 Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
05 Antiquus - Elautheria
06 Twisted Into Form - Then Comes Affliction To Awaken The Dreamer
07 Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
08 Meyvn - Splintered Skies
09 Outworld – Outworld
10 Winters Bane - Redivivus
11 Wolf - The Black Flame
12 Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings
13 Kamelot - One Cold Winter's Night
14 Children Of Bodom - Chaos Ridden Years
15 Leatherwolf - World Asylum
16 Spheric Universe Experience - Mental Torment
17 Slayer - Christ Illusion
18 Time Requiem - Optical Illusion
19 Derek Sherinian - Blood Of The Snake
20 Dezperadoz - The Legend And The Truth
21 Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
22 Vicious Rumors – Warball
23 Sanity's Rage - The Rage Of One
24 Wolverine – Still
25 Rammstein - Völkerball

Top 3 DVD's

01 Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
02 Kamelot – One A Cold Winters Night
03 Arch Enemy - Live Apocalypse

Best Concert of 2006

Exodus - Effenaar Eindhoven

 

[Pabla]

Yipes! That's quite the list you've got there Hawk! Like Steve, I have not bought much this past year... I guess I've grown up a little and have been investing my money on the apartment and decorating instead of buying 10 CDs per month

But regardless of that... no matter if I had bought 1,000 newly released CD's this past year the number one top spot would have been a no-brainer...

A Matter Of Life And Death by Iron Maiden for me was the best metal CD I've heard in years... yes I know that people will call me a "fangirl" and whatnot, but it truly is an amazing record to me.

Besides that nothing really caught my attention... I recently bought Craddle of Filth's "Thornography" and I am enjoying it... although it does not stand up to "Nymphetamine"... I am not a big COF fan, but they really captured my attention with Nynphetamine...

That's about it... there might have been a few records that I forgot about... excuse me, I am feeling a bit rusty

 

[Wyvern]

top ten

1. Sabaton – “Attero Dominatus”
2. Pharaoh – “The Longest Night”
3. Abandoned – “Thrash Notes”
4. Jorn – “The Duke”
5. Wolf – “The Black Flame”
6. Astral Doors – “Astralism”
7. Wuthering Heights – “The Shadow Cabinet”
8. Solitude Aeturnus – “Alone”
9. Hammerfall – “Threshold”
10. Firewind – “Allegiance”

the pretty good but somebody is better

11. Benedictum – “Uncreation”
12. Tyr – “Ragnarok”
13. Falconer – “Northwind”
14. Black Crucifixion – “Faustian Dream”
15. Motorhead – “Kiss Of Death”

the ones that should have been better, I expected more from these bands/albums

16. Dream Evil – “United”
17. Riot – “Army Of One”
18. Doro – “Warrior Soul”
19. Venom – “Metal Black”
20. Majesty – “Hellforces”
21. Leatherwolf – “World Asylum”
22. Blind Guardian – “A Twist In The Myth”
23. Krux – “II”
24. Angra – “Aurora Consurgens”
25. Manigance – “L’Ombre Et La Lumière”
26. Meliah Rage – “The Deep And Dreamless Sleep”
27. Luca Turilli – “The Infinite Wonders Of Creation”
28. Time Requiem – “Optical Illusion”
29. Crescent Shield – “The Last Of My Kind”
30. Fatal Force – “Fatal Force”
31. Black Steel – “Hellhammer”
32. Cellador – “Enter Deception”

Progressive top ten

1. The Tangent – “A Place In The Queue”
2. Waterclime – “The Astral Factor”
3. The Flower Kings – “Paradox Hotel”
4. Dream Theater – “Score XX”
5. Derek Sherinian – “Blood Of The Snake”
6. Joe Satriani – “Super Colossal”
7. Rick Wakeman – “Retro”
8. Blackmore’s Night – “The Village Lanterne”
9. Time’s Forgotten – “A Relative Moment Of Peace”

Honorable mention (the album is huge but is not excatly new even if 2006)

1. Tipton, Entwistle & Powell – “Edge Of The World”

Albums that didn't get in time for my collection but were reviewed (or not)

1. Logos – “Plan Mundial Para La Destrucción”
2. Tarot – “Crows Fly Back”
3. Horcas – “Asesino”
4. Space Odyssey – “Tears Of The Sun”
5. Beto Vazquez Infinity – “Flying Towards The New Horizon”
6. World Below – “Repulsion”

 

[Shadow Thief]

here's my list:

1.Eidolon-the parallel otherworld

...that is the only album of last year worth mentioning

 

[stevekachinsky]

Hey Wyvern how does the Solitude A compare with their previous stuff? They really don't have any bad albums.

 

[Wyvern]

Hey Wyvern how does the Solitude A compare with their previous stuff? They really don't have any bad albums.

Steve I do feel this is a strong comeback. As you said they don't have bad albums and this one by no means is weaker than the previous ones. IMO is a great follow-up to "Adagio" but I do sense also the spirit of "Through The Darkest Hour" in it, no meaning regression but continuity of their quality doom.

I'm sure you'll like it

 

[stevekachinsky]

Darkest is my favorite, so bring it on!

 

[jesper]

PS - of course I listened to Zep, Priest, Queen, Metallica, etc. like I have for the last 30 years!

Never forget... FATES WARNING !!!

 

[Hawk]

Yipes! That's quite the list you've got there Hawk! Like Steve, I have not bought much this past year... I guess I've grown up a little and have been investing my money on the apartment and decorating instead of buying 10 CDs per month

First of all I do not plan to grow up, ever! Second most of the material in my list I got to know when people send me the promo so I could review it for Aardschok and Digital Steel. I got to know Seventh Wonder because of their promo. Hearing it I was blown away!! What a killer album that is!

 

[TheTrueFortress]

Geez, I buy no fewer than 100 CDs each year. Maybe I have a problem. But there are always SO many new albums from bands I dig.

And yes, my CD collection is getting to be quite extensive. But computer files, for me, just don't cut it.