OK, it's January so that means two things: you're skint after Christmas and Terrorizor decide which band they would like to fellate obsessively this year.

The top 40 albums of 2005, according to the writers of said publication are as follows:

1. Meshuggah - Catch 33 (Nuclear Blast)
2. Jesu - Jesu (Hydra Head)
3. Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights (Nuclear Blast)
4. Deathspell Omega - Kenose (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
6. The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital (Code 666)
7. Burst - Origo (Relapse)
8. Candlemass - Candlemass (Nuclear Blast)
9. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache)
10. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn (Neurot)
11. Nile - Annihiliation of the Wicked (Relapse)
12. Witchcraft - Firewood (Rise Above)
13. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (Metal Blade)
14. Sigh - Gallows Gallery (Candlelight)
15. Blut Aus Nord - Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity (Appease Me)
16. Judas Priest - Angel of Retiribution (Sony)
17. Earth - Hex (Or Printing in the Eternal Method) (Southern Lord)
18. High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings (Relapse)
19. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (Listenable)
20. Sunno))) - Black One (Southern Lord)
21. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)
22. 1349 - Hellfire (Candlelight)
23. <Code> - Nouveau Gloaming (Spikefarm)
24. Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush the Insects (Spikefarm)
25. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
26. God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason (Century Media)
27. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour (Century Media)
28. Capricorns - Ruder Forms Survive (Rise Above)
29. Unsane - Blood Run (Relapse)
30. Ulver - Blood Inside (Jester)
31. Strapping Young Lad - Alien (Century Media)
32. Napalm Death - The Code is Red, Long Live the Code (Century Media)
33. Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT)
34. The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma (Metal Blade)
35. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (Hydra Head)
36. System of a Down - Mesmerize/Hpnotize (BMG)
37. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies (Season of Mist)
38. Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon (Roadrunner)
39. Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine (Century Media)
40. Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma (Rise Above)

The readers' poll was slightly different...

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
3. Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
4. Obituary - Frozen in Time
5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
6. Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
7. Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights
8. Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
9. Criminal - Sicario
10. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

You may now throw a hissy fit because your favourite band wasn't mentioned.

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if Mezmerise and Hypnotize were there, so should Once was Not, it wasnt THAT bad

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Pleasantly surprised to see some Clutch on there. If nobody else got the memo: Clutch rules.

elephant riders rules. the rest doesnt do it for me


2005 was pretty good for metal. 2006 appears to be better

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It's horrifying to see Nevermore at 27, but I don't expect much from these shitty people.

It not a bad list, I'm glad to see deathspell omega made it so high. But I agree, if Mesmerize and Hypnotize made it, Once Was Not should have been at least been mentioned.

I can't for the life of me understand how this is numero uno.Its their worst album by far and some others on that list are so much better.The readers poll is muuuuuch better,obviously.

not THAT bad? Once was not rules the world!

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i was glad reverand bizzare was in there. i don't get number one though. bad decision IMO

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System of a Down and no Cryptopsy...what is this world coming to?

Haha, system of a down and everytime i die is on there. Bullshit. I thought this thread was going to be about Terrorizer too :/. My reading is getting worse and worse each day.

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shit list only saved by Akercocke, Nile and High on Fire.

I know.. its just... sad.

Edit: and Nile should have been way higher on that list. AOW was an amazing album.

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What do they understand through the term of "Terrorizor album"?

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Terrorizor is a magazine and each year they unveil their albums of the year.

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Of the whole list these would be the only ones in my top 20.

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I wonder, now that I've seen some responses to this thread: what type of list do you people expect from this sort of thing?

I don't really see what separates Elephant Riders from any later Clutch record.

Random thoughts:

All that you can realistically expect from a list like this is that they get most of the really good releases of the year in with all the more mediocre stuff. I get the impression that this magazine is trying to be a KVLT as possible with some of those picks, especially the writer's top 10.

They missed most of my Top for '05... Behemoth... November's Doom...

Napalm Death, SOAD, Arch Enemy and Bolt Thrower do not belong on that list. All their releases were standard.

Meshuggah at #1 has only one explanation - someone threw a big metal-related hissy-fit in the editorial meeting and proclaimed the album was absolute genius and he'd never work again unless it was first. I did notice that reviews disagreed very violently about this album... I fell into the "I've heard chopped time signatures before and you can't just impress me with quirky shit any more, you bunch of tubfucking groinal butterpats" camp myself.

Not including Corrosion of Conformity is halfway between criminally negligent and merely retarded.

I love Opeth enough as much as the next bastard, but can we get their balls off our collective metal chin... please? Ghost Reveries was definitely NOT THAT GOOD.

Reader list is much less irritating that Staff list.

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The readers pole is much more convincing.

wheres cky- an answer can be found

its about as metal as clutch is. and the singer/riff writer is responsible for a ton of people getting into metal. also for organizing the upcoming death tribute album

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It still sucks though Transient.

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I miss I, monarch in that list. Actually, I miss tons of albums. Gh3y.

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James Murphy isn't in CKY, Transient.

Clutch isn't metal at all, but I don't think it matters much.

And yeah, Jim's claim is more or less what I was getting at: placement doesn't really matter. You have to expect them to get some of the very good in a random assortment with the mediocre, with one or two obvious picks nowhere to be found. The actual placement doesn't mean anything, even probably to the people who made the list. Possibly especially to them.

WTF!? Once Was Not is on there. They must have been desperate for a spotfiller.

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Clutch is pretty good, "Blaster Tyrant" or whatever it was called is decent.

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Damn straight. Clutch IS stoner rock.

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Most stoners aren't one tenth as clever or interesting as Clutch.

I totally agree. I have every album, and love 'em all. I think it's the southern blues sound that makes their sound as unique as it is.

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I always seem to associate Pelican with Isis for some reason unbeknownst to me. Valid?

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I could see that. They are on the same label. And have a similar sound.

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correct.... he added solos on the re-recorded universal culture shock album. that album is released under Foreign Objects which is a band that is deron miller and jess margera. they later formed cky

but i never said that murphster was in cky. i wouldnt say something like that. i practically follow cky with a pen and paper around, writing down everything they do and say

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My point was that James Murphy is more responsible for the Death tribute album than anybody else.

i do the same thing, and ive never heard either.

from what i've heard, deron started making calls and its been kind of a joint grouping. i cant wait for that album to come out though, oh god

alright i wont post off topic again

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James started before I'd ever heard of CKY (and I was closing CKY threads in this here forum back before almost anybody here was a member), and he's been the one running around the country, taking time out of his own schedule in order to accomodate the schedules of the various contributors (including Deron Miller) he's recording to compile the performances into a whole. Miller seemed to get the project going again when it stalled out, but it's James's baby and at least a handful of the people who play on the record are there because of him.

Pelican and Isis are in that same kind of soundgroup that's apparently referred to as 'post-hardcore.' They do sound similar in certain ways. I like Pelican less.

Clutch has the funk. The funk helps. Fallon's voice is also incredible. Plus the Southern Blues-Rock.

haha true, james was all over the place recording this. well then if it is his idea, cool. deron still rules!

i can think of a few more good best of 2005s

rumpelstiltskin grinder- buried in the back yard

id like to see are you dead yet up there

arsebreed muching the rotten

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Thanks, guys. Think I might try them out.

Has anbody got any comments on that Red Sparowes album? For some reason I'm intrigued by the description in the magazine.

Rature: I can strongly recommend Isis, particularly the Oceanic and Panopticon albums - think of a much, much heavier Tool with better ambience and a more vivid concept to their sound. I think Aaron Turner's vocals are better too: a lot harsher and more abrasive even when sung (relatively) cleanly.

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AHH!!

hehe i love Monty Python

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I'll definetly check them out,as I'm particularly fond of Tool.

Burst at No 7 LOL!

It's because it just came out and apparently everyone loves it.

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The Black Dahlia Murder put out a cd in 2005?! WTF!

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