Here are my picks:

1.Exodus-Shovel Headed Kill Machine
2.Napalm Death-The Code is Red long live the code
3.Destruction-Inventor of Evil
4.Bolt Thrower-Those once Loyal


What are your picks?

in no particular order

enslaved - isa
primordial - the gathering wilderness
porcupine tree - deadwing
opeth - ghost reveries
and a whole host of others i don't feel like thinking of or listing right now

GOROD - Neurotripsicks

shit...I haven't been paying attention to production year in a while. I don't think I can answer this...

Aborym ... With No Human Intervention (not sure if this was 05)
Craft ... Terror propaganda
Grand Belials Key - Kosherat

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder-Buried in the Front Yard

Mork Gryning - Mork Gryning
1349 - Hellfire
Primal Fear - Seven Seals
Pagans Mind - Enigmatic Calling
Rakun - Morbid Tails

Honorable mentions to Bolt Thrower and Dark Funeral.

Pokemon - Bring The Poke

mercenary- 11 dreams

my favorite by far

I find it odd that Im the only one that mentioned the new Exodus and the new Destruction

New Exodus and new Destruction were also very awesome.

Leukorrhea-Breeding Salvation
HANDS DOWN!

"3rd World Genocide" from NUCLEAR ASSAULT
"A Means To An End" from BIOHAZARD
"Those Once Loyal" from BOLT THROWER
The new live ANTHRAX with Joey Belladonna
The new live TESTAMENT

morgion-cloaked in ages, crowned in earth

nightbringer and temple of not split

InventorofEvil said:

I can't stand the new Exodus.

The new Destruction is pretty sweet, but the last 3 albums in their 'comeback' phase were better IMHO.

ShitWiZZard-"Fear of a Black Wand"
Sack Blabbath-"Blabbath bloody Blabbath"

Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
Despised Icon - The Healing Process
Arsis- A Diamond For Disease
Nightingale - Nightfall Overture
Blessing The Hogs - Twelve Gauge Solution

"Chronoclast" - Buried Inside
"Slowly Peeling the Flesh..." - Tyag
"Sons of Sulpher" - Crowpath

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Strapping Young Lad - Alien

INPO

Napalm Death - The Code is Red Long Live the Code
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Deceased - As the Weird Travel on
Sunn o))) - the Black One
Enslaved - Isa


*of course I still havent heard the new Kate Bush album and its possibly that that will blow all these ones away.....and no im not joking.

pretty much every willowtip release for this year has owned

hello, is anyone alive and listend to willowtip records?

rotten sound-exit
watchmaker-erased from the memory of man
every time i die-gutter phenomenon
ion dissonance-solace


there are way too many albums every year. these are the first 4 i could think of

GOROD - Neurotripsicks

You fucking idiots!

Dark Tranquillity - Character
Enslaved - Isa
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh (well it was a 2005 US release)

I'd stick Arsis - A Diamond for Disease up there, but, as phenomenal as it is, it's only an EP

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
1. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
4. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
5. SYL - Alien

Kreator "Enemy of God"

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

how did i forget that one?

Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Craft - Fuck the Universe
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
1349 - Hellfire
Candelmass - Candlemass
Falkenbach - Heralding, The Fireblade

This was a great year for metal releases. In no particular order...

Neuraxis - Trilateral Progression
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Deeds of Flesh - Crown of Souls
Abhorred - Wallowing in Utter Chaos
Arsis - A Diamond for Disease
Animosity - Empires
Odious Mortem - Devouring the Prophecy
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
Rotten Sound - Exit
Origin - Echoes of Decimation

swallow the sun's new album

SYL-Alien.
Nile-Annihilation..........
The Red Chord-Clients.

for metal:

meshuggah: catch 33
cephalic carnage: anomalies
soilent green: confrontation
neuraxis: trilateral progression
ion dissonance: solace
rotten sound: exit
crowpath: son of sulfur

oooh oooh i forgot about these:

between the buried and me: alaska
nile: annihilation of the wicked

Napalm Death-The Code is Red long live the code

the new sentenced and subterranean masquerade albums were also good.

ulver - blood inside

AUTOPSY_666 said:

2005 Re-release by Gorod,Originally released in 2004,Professor Metal...SO does it really count?

YES! It came out a few months ago on Willowtip, this year!

the new moonsorrow and swallow the sun albums are great too. saw those mentioned and had to agree.

Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Ion Dissonance - Solace
Ed Gein - Judas Goats and Deisel Eaters


and am i the only one who was dissopointed with the new cryptopsy??

new sentenced was killer dread, good call.

CrabRagoon said:

no