The year is nearly over...

[A Reason To Sing]

Nevermore! Hell freaking yeah! TGE is amazing. Great band.

Opeth! Duh.

System of a Down - Hypnotize/ Mesmerize. Hypnotize is grand. SOAD rocks. Their just out there.

Dream Theater - Octavarium

And stuff...

 

[Godhead's Lament]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
Cryptopsty - Once Was Not
Children Of Bodom - Are Youd Dead Yet?
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Chimaira - Chimaira
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

 

[vashts80]

1) Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2) Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
3) Strapping Young Lad - Alien
4) Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
5) Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies


Honorable mentions go to (in no particular order):

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Flotsam and Jetsam - Dreams of Death
God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Gamma Ray - Majestic
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
Hypocrisy - Virus
Obituary - Frozen in Time
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

 

[rotten to the core]

Top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order):

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
Kreator - Enemy Of God
Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Meshuggah - Catch 33
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Spiritual Beggars - Demons

Writing this reminds me that there was a lot of more good stuff released in 2004.

 

[spigot]

2006 will be 10 times better

What? Without even a Opeth album comming... it has no chance.

 

[xXBraveMurderDay]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Hypocrisy - Virus
Dark Tranquility - Character
Old Man's Child - Vermin

 

[Zen22]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Tristania - Ashes
Sinate - Beyond Human (KIWI METAL!! its sum good shit!!)
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
www.theaxeattack.com

 

[A fair judgement]

Opeth - GR
Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210
Akercocke - Word that go unspoken...
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast (re-release)
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Cradle of Filth - Peace through superior firepower (DVD)

 

[KjeXXXer]

Opeth - GR (duh)
SOAD - Mez & Hyp
Metallica - SKOM
Chimaira
Sabbath live
getting into In Flames
Stonegard - Arrows
Soulfly - Dark Ages

 

[KjeXXXer]

Opeth - GR
Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210
Akercocke - Word that go unspoken...
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast (re-release)
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Cradle of Filth - Peace through superior firepower (DVD)

yeah, these too..

 

[hibernal_dream]

1. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
2. Umbra Nihil - Gnoia
3. Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschaunng
4. Ulver - Blood Inside
5. Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
6. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
7. Graveland - Fire Chariot of Destruction
8. Falkenbach - Heralding The Fireblade
9. Kreator - Enemy of God
10. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

 

[Procella]

I think Blood Inside was the best of 2005. But Synchestra will own everyone and everything in 2006.

 

[Don Corleone]

5. Jaga Jazzist - What We Must

HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ONE! it's fantastic, unexceptional!

 

[Midwinter_melancholY]

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Oceansize - Everyone into Position
3. Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
4. Peccatum - The Moribund People
5. Ulver - Blood Inside
6. Rammstein - Reise Reise
7. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
8. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze

 

[Disgustipated]

Amend my list to add Dredg.

 

[RjBeals]

10. Corrosion of Conformity--In the Arms of God

Nice one - one of my fav's this year also. Good Taste Risquit.

 

[Risquit]

Yeah, real nice album. They don't seem to get the props they deserve.

 

[opeth8]

COC is great !!!

 

[in limbow]

Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
Opeth- Ghost Reveries

 

[vashts80]

I almost forgot:

Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls