Your Top 20 albums of 2005?

[Under_the_Weeping_Moon]

1. The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute
2. Between the Buried and Me- Alaska
3. Opeth- Ghost Reveries
4. Dark Tranquillity- Character
5. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
6. Sunn O)))- Black1
7. Pelican- The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
8. Sigh - Gallows Gallery
9. Rumplestilskin Grinder - Buried In The Front Yard
10. Darkest Hour- Undoing Ruin
11. Into the Moat- The Design
12. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
13. Nevermore - This Goddless Endeavor
14. God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
15. Leng Tch'e - Process of Elimination
16. Soilwork- Stabbing the Drama
17. Napalm Death - The Code Is Red, Long Live The Code
18. Behemoth- Demigod
19. Bongzilla - Amerijuanican
20. Summers End- Summers End

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

I probably got less than 20 albums, so I would have to name every album I got even if I thought it wasn't that good.

 

[Ghik]

01 - Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
02 - Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
03 - Opeth - Ghost Reveries
04 - Napalm Death - The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code
05 - Obituary - Frozen In Timе
06 - Kreator - Enemy Of The God
07 - Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
08 - Grave Digger - Last Supper
09 - God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
10 - Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
11 - Khold - Krek
12 - Destruction - Inventor Of Evil
13 - Gamma Ray - Majestic
14 - Annihilator - Schizo Deluxe
15 - Holy Moses - Strenght Power Will Passion
16 - Kamelot - The Black Halo

Well, they are not 20 but I couldn`t hear a lot of the albums which came out this year, like Judas, UDO, Strtovarius, Masterplan and a lot of other famous names...Doesn`t matter - I`ll do it next year

 

[Nomansvally]

The top 3 of 2005 (not in a particular order) are:

*Opeth - Ghost Reveries
*Procupine Tree - Deadwing
*The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute

I especially liked Porcupine Tree's album.

 

[barbu]

hi for the best album 2005
it's : Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

 

[:Wreath:]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
SYL - Alien

There are lots of other fine albums but these truly stand out from the rest for me... And I didn't like the new Porcupine Tree

 

[opeth_353]

Christ... i don't think i've heard 20 new albums this year!

Taake
Akercocke
Opeth
Deathspell Omega
Arcturus
etc.. i'm pretty fed up with these lists now.. don't think i can be arsed replying to anymore of them after this lol.

 

[Godhead's Lament]

I don't know about 20, but these would definately be on the list vv

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Behemoth - Demigod
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Procupine Tree - Deadwing
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

 

[naboo]

I haven't bought 20 yet but I'll list what I have in order.

1. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2. Behemoth - Demigod
3. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
4. Kreator - Enemy of God
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
6. Marc Rizzo - Colossal Myopia
7. Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
8. Enslaved - Isa
9. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
10. Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
11. Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
12. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
13. Dream Theater - Octavarium
14. Meshuggah - Catch 33

And I just got Pelican's new one for Christmas today so that will probably be high on the list eventually. I just have to let it sink in.

 

[makulaexecutioner]

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Judas Priest- ANgel of Retribution
Nevermore- This Godless Endeavor
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

uhhhh...maybe thats about it. ohh yeah! the mars volta! thats one great band. love them

 

[JoeVice]

frances the mute is amazing!!!!

 

[The Evil Toucan]

U L V E R B L O O D I N S I D E

 

[etakistan]

U L V E R B L O O D I N S I D E

*cookie*



In no particular order:

Ulver - Blood Inside
Janus - Nachtmar
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Peccatum - The Moribund People



I think that's it. :/

 

[opethmaniac]

OPETH : Ghost Reveries
THE MARS VOLTA : France The Mute
RED SPAROWES : At The Soundless Dawn
GOJIRA : From Mars To Sirius
ARCTURUS : Sideshow Symphonies
ULVER : Blood Inside
and surely more ...

 

[Splintered Vision]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
Trivium - Ascendancy
Swallow The Sun - Ghost Of Loss
Octavia Sperati - Winter Enclosure
1349 - Hellfire
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Kamelot - The Black Halo

 

[A fair judgement]

1349 - Hellfire
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Children of Bodom - Are you dead yet?
Wednesday 13 - Translyvania 90210
Obituary - Frozen in Time
Behemoth- Demigod
Judas Priest- Angel of Retribution
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

Can't think of anymore.

 

[Tubbs]

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Nevermore - The Godless Endeavor

Uhh... How do you count to 20 again?!?

 

[JoeVice]

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Nevermore - The Godless Endeavor

Uhh... How do you count to 20 again?!?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

 

[TheButcher]

1.- Opeth "Ghost Reveries"
2.- Riverside "Second Life Syndrome"
3.- Porcupine Tree "Deadwing"
4.- Nevermore "This Godless Endeavor"
5.- Dredg "Catch Without Arms"
6.- Arcturus "Sideshow Symphonies"
7.- Nightingale "Invisible"
8.- Fields Of The Nephilim "Mourning Sun"
9.- Hypocrisy "Virus"
10.- Stream Of Passion "Embrace The Storm"
11.- Meshuggah "Catch 33"
12.- Judas Priest "Angel Of Retribution"
13.- Fantomas "Suspended Animation"
14.- The Project Hate MCMXCIX "Armageddon March Eternal (Symphonies of Slit Wrists)"
15.- Neal Morse "?"
16.- The Mars Volta "Frances The Mute"
17.- Biomechanical "Empires Of The World"
18.- Coprofago "Unorthodox Creative Criteria"
19.- Gojira "From Mars To Sirius"
20.- Between The Buried And Me "Alaska"

 

[Lokasenna]

1.Solefald - Red for Fire (An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1)
2.Falkenbach - Heralding-The Fireblade
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Swallow the Sun - Ghosts of Loss
5.Hypocrisy - Virus
6.Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
7.Rivendell - farewell / the last dawn (heathen folk metal - similar to Falkenbach, Menhir and old Empyrium)
8.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
9.Blind Stare - Symphony of Delusions
10.Candlemass - Candlemass
11.Catamenia - Winternight Tragedies
12.Communic - Conspiracy in Mind
13.Dark Tranquillity - Character
14.Isole - Forevermore (Reminds me of Candlemass)
15.Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness
16.Moonsorrow - Verisaekeet
17.Noumena - Absence
18.Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic:Calling
19.Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
20.Total Devastation - Reclusion