The very best of 2005: your top 10 list

[Sadguru]

Ok guys, it has to be done...

Top 10 albums

1. Sigur Rós - Takk...
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
4. Swallow the Sun - Ghost of Loss
5. Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
6. Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust
7. Klimt 1918 - Dopoguerra
8. Ulver - Blood Inside
9. Arcturus - Sidehow Symphonies
10. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
    

Honorable mention to:
Shining - The Eerie Cold
The Evpatoria Report - Golevka
October Falls - Marras
Yob - The Unreal Never Lived
Klimt 1918 - Dopoguerra
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Thrice - Vheissu
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Taake - ...Doedsvad
Deadspell Omega - Kénôse
System of a Down - Mezmerize/hypnotize.

2005 rating: 8,5/10

 

[Henrik Main]

I'll post my list on New Year's Eve. Too many albums I haven't listened to properly yet.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I'm not up for this yet. I'll probably make a list in a few weeks.

 

[NAD]

Top 5:

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Clutch - Robot Hive / Exodus
Sunn O))) - Black One

that's the only great stuff this year. lots of good stuff, but nothing else worthy of making a Top Whatever list, including the latest Ulver.

oh, and i haven't listened to the Toby Driver solo album yet.

 

[Sadguru]

@Erik: What do you think of Tyranny of Souls? I thought it was kind of a letdown, especially considering BD last few albums.

btw, Sunwar the Dead is 2004.

 

[Demilich]

Well, the cds I keep downstairs tend to be the ones I listen to most at any given time, and these are the 2005 releases I found there: (minus the ones i don't like)

Boris - sound track from film "mabuta no ura"
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung (except the Ukranian version, cant spell name)
Nightingale - Nightfall Overture
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
Slough Feg - Atavism
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Sunn O))) - Black One
Earth - Hex, or Printing in the Infernal Method
Witchcraft - Firewood
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis

Still need to hear:
Burning Saviours - s/t (in the mail right now)
Centurion's Ghost - whatthefucksitcalled?
35007 - isuckatalbumnames
Brant Bjork - Saved by Magic

and there are about 9 million other things i still need to hear too, i just forget them!

 

[Sadguru]

Well, not a letdown per se, I hadn't EXPECTED anything as good as TCW or AOB because Bruce has nothing left to prove now that he's back in Maiden (i.e. he's not trying to outdo Maiden any longer), so... I think, however, that taken for what it is it is a quite solid heavy metal album.

Entirely agree.

 

[Nate The Great]

There are so many solid albums this year, I'm going to have a terrible time making a list.

I still have several albums to listen to, so my list will have to be later.

I know how much you guys all eagerly await my list. Please be patient. It will come . . .

 

[NAD]

I know how much you guys all eagerly await my list.

i know i do, i need to see what good shit i missed.

 

[Sadguru]

I know how much you guys all eagerly await my list. Please be patient. It will come . . .

indeed.

 

[General Zod]

I'm not prepared yet. Still rounding out my list. The Top 5 will probably include Nevermore, Primordial, Redemption, Circus Maximus and Kamelot, though not necessarily in that order.

Zod

 

[Ellestin]

The Evpatoria Report – Golevka
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Geisterfaust
Overmars – Affliction, Endocrine… Vertigo
Lunar Aurora – Mond
Yob – The Unreal Never Lived
Red Sparowes – At the Soundless Dawn
Drudkh – The Swan Road
Sigur Rós – Takk
Crowbar – Lifesblood for the Downtrodden
The Ocean – Aeolian

 

[Demilich]

more thoughts:

albums i never listen to anymore:

clutch - robot hive/exodus
taake - ...doedskvad
rudra - brahmavidya: primordial i
october falls - marras
november's doom - the pale haunt departure
moonsorrow - verisakeet
nokturnal mortum - wtfshorternamenexttime
nevermore - the godless endeavour


must revisit em all before end of year.

 

[Sadguru]

The Evpatoria Report – Golevka
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Geisterfaust
Overmars – Affliction, Endocrine… Vertigo
Lunar Aurora – Mond
Yob – The Unreal Never Lived
Red Sparowes – At the Soundless Dawn
Drudkh – The Swan Road
Sigur Rós – Takk
Crowbar – Lifesblood for the Downtrodden
The Ocean – Aeolian

Shit, completely forgot about Yob

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I wish I could participate.

 

[Sadguru]

I wish I could participate.

Why can't you?

 

[Nate The Great]

Why can't you?

Because he's still working through his stockpile of 2002 releases.

 

[NAD]

this is gugs and his CD collection:

 

[lizard]

 

[Sadguru]

nice!