Your "Album of the Year" for the Past Five Years or So

[byrne]

2000: Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001 was a HORRIBLE year it seems)
2002: Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry (hard to choose this year)
2003: Psycroptic - Sceptre of the Ancients
2004: The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution (another hard year)
2005: Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (this was a great year)
2006: Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Years
2007: Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites
2008: Haven't listened to anything yet.

 

[Dead Children Speak No Lies]

2007 Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal
2006 Suffocation - S/T
2005 Gojira - From Mars...
2004 Arsis - A Celebration...
2003 Caliban - Shadow Hearts

There's still a few months left in 08, so can't really comment on it yet.

 

[Rumpole]

2008: Grand Magus - Iron Will or Seamount - NTODRM
2007: Hour Of 13 - Hour Of 13
2006: Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
2005: Bedemon - Child Of Darkness
2004: Pagan Altar - Lords Of Hypocrisy
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2002: Pentagram - First Daze Here
2001: Mirror Of Deception - Mirrorsoil
2000: Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
1999: Tearstained - Monumental In It's Sorrow

 

[Onder]

Maybe...

2008 - Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2007 - Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers / Warning - Watching From a Distance
2006 - Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2004 - Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
2003 - Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger of Metal / Wormed - Planispherium
2002 - Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry ?
2001 - Absu - Tara ?
2000 - Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

 

[Zephyrus]

I can't get into SMRC. I might just sell it

2000: Limbonic Art - Ad Noctum: Dynasty Of Death

1999 tbh.

 

[Avigrus]

1983: Metallica - Kill em All
1984: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985: Slayer - Hell Awaits
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Sepultura - Schizophrenia
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
1990: Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
1991: Death - Human / Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick / Carcass - Necroticism / Sepultura - Arise
1992: Faith No More - Angel Dust
1993: Sepultura - Chaos AD
1994: Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
1995: Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
1996: Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
1997: Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
1998: Iced Earth - Something Wicked this Way Comes
1999: Opeth - Still Life
2000: Alchemist - Organasm / Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
2001: Devin Townsend - Terria
2002: Amon Amarth - Versus the World / Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
2003: Alchemist - Austral Alien
2004: Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh / Wintersun - Wintersun
2005: Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
2006: Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side / Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2007: Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
2008: Transcending Bizarre - The Serpent's Manifolds

 

[sevag00]

1999 tbh.

Fixed.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

2004- SMRC , of course.

Fuck, I lost the memo. What was that album again?

This is a great idea for a thread. I'm going to have to go through all my shit when I get home & come up with a good list. 1album a year is going to be a struggle, but I can do it. The tough thing is my taste always changes, so my favorite albums have got boring over time, but I'll make it work.

 

[Alter]

I actually got that in the mail today. I noticed the final song on the leaked version is missing almost 2 minutes of the song at the end.



2007: Lunar Aurora - Andacht
2006: Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
2005 - ???

I give up since I can't pick anything else.

That PN album would have been my top pick but Pink beats it by a little.

 

[Omni]

Wow, the extent of your hipsterdom knows no bounds!

 

[Alter]

Dude, that record is totally amazing. You have no idea how close that was though.

 

[sevag00]

I also want to add 2003: Marduk - Plague Angel

Continuation
1995:
1994: Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
1993: Immortal - Pure Holocaust, My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
1992:
1991: Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
1990: Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss, Kreator - Coma of Souls
1989: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness, Kreator - Extreme Aggresions
1988: Slayer - South of Heaven
1987: King Diamond - Abigail
1986: Kreator - Pleasure to Kill, Slayer - Reign in Blood
1985: Kreator - Endless Pain, Slayer - Hell Awaits
1984:
1983:
1982: Venom - Black Metal

 

[Krilons Resa]

Last decade, Top 5*, not in order...probably forgetting some.

*Excluding demos & EPs

2008
Revelation - Release
Meshuggah - obZen
Amenra - Mass IIII
Ogre - Plague of The Planet
Enslaved - Vertebrae

2007
Pale Divine - Cemetery Earth
Hour of 13 - Hour of 13
Big Business - Here Comes The Waterworks
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Rwake - Voices of Omens

2006
Warning - Watching From A Distance
Reino Ermitaño - Brujas Del Mar
Amenra - Mass III
Zebulon Pike - II: The Deafening Twilight
Epheles – Souviens Toi

2005
Confessor - Unraveled
Thee Plague of Gentlemen - Primula Pestis
YOB - The Unreal Never Lived
Big Business - Head For The Shallow
Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness

2004
Zebulon Pike - And Blood Was Passion
Airged L'amh - The Silver Arm
Mirror of Deception - Foregone
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Drudkh – Autmn Aurora

2003 (5 of my favorite albums of all-time in one year)
Orodruin - Epicurean Mass
Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger of Metal
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Slough Feg - Traveller

2002
Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory...
YOB - Catharsis
Isis - Oceanic
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Negura Bunget _ N Crugu Bradului

2001
Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash
Maudlin of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map/Bath
Absu - Tara

2000
Oversoul - Seven Days In November
Solace - Further
Slough Feg - Down Among The Dead Men
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfris
The Crown - Deathrace King

1999
Warning - The Strength To Dream
Lucifugum – on The Sortilage of Christianity
Immortal – At The Heart Of Winter
Taake – Nattestid
Today Is The Day - In The Eyes of God

1998
Solstice - New Dark Age
Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun
Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
Arghoslent - Galloping Through The Battle Ruins
Agalloch – Pale Folklore

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

ARGH I need the new Revelation!

 

[S<issors]

It's sweet.

Seamount's album was rad, too, not to mention free.

 

[Zephyrus]

Fuck, I lost the memo. What was that album again?

Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

ARGH I need the new Revelation!

Likewise. Any chance Newbury Comics will stock it?

 

[Omni]

Dude, that record is totally amazing. You have no idea how close that was though.

I thought it was all right, but nothing really amazing or best of the year.

 

[S<issors]

This is a great idea for a thread.

I'm planning on checking out all the names I haven't heard before. Should be a good time.

 

[ivry91]

^^That's one good service Ultimatemetal does for you, Same here.

 

[S<issors]

Handle used to be Malignance, got bored and had it changed at a time when I obsessively listened to DsO and thought Malign Paradigm looked/sounded cooler. SMRC is a great album, no doubt, but it has nothing on Dark Tribe.

They're the dudes with the Silencer-style vox, right?