Best albums of 2005

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Postby Catatonik » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:02 pm

Sigh are Post-black metal infused with well...everything.

Japanese geniusi, I highly recommend you check out their latest release Gallows Gallery and a previous realease, Imaginary Sonicscape
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Postby -GfN- » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:05 am

My absolute favourite for 2005 is The Old Dead Tree with 'The Perpetual Motion'. Followed by...

2. Devildriver - The Fury of our Maker's Hand
3. RR United
4. Mors Principum Est - The Unborn
...and the general suspicious :roll:

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Postby Kai Stromler » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:12 pm

Just wanted to put in my .02e on the metal side; I'm somewhat let down, but not exactly surprised, that nobody's noted the 2005 records by Primordial and The Vision Bleak.

The Gathering Wilderness is an incredible disc that is debatably at the level of Ghost Reveries, and certainly manages to somehow top the records that Primordial put out before it. Their epic scale is even larger and richer this time around, and the social-political observations are just as fresh and cutting. That a band can be deliverately relevant without coming off as preachy, or failing to be awesome, is rare in music at large and especially in metal at this point in time.

Carpathia may just be a personal value pick, but I do feel there is a value for metal as entertainment, rather than an exercise in depth or technical awesomeness. With this record, The Vision Bleak deliver a very well-executed and ultimately fun diversion that does not pretend to be more than it is. It's in the tradition of King Diamond's epics, but much better than the King's recent output. I'm a great fan of the original Abigail, and thus fully aware of the import of saying that Carpathia is our era's Abigail. With Emperor riffs.

I obviously don't have a consensus pick for top record of the year; Opeth, Nile, Nevermore, and maybe Sentenced or Hypocrisy are all also in the running, and I haven't heard the new (and highly praised) God Forbid or this new Sigh yet. If I'm not at my girlfriend's tonight before flying back, I'll be down at the record store remedying the deficiency.

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Postby Unpronounceable_Symbol » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:07 pm

A couple late entries that were really solid:

Boredoms, Seadrum/House of Sun
Two twenty-minute tracks, one of insane drums and traditional Boredoms-style noise and one of dueling overdriven sitars (?!). I find Boredoms' long-form stuff has been getting much more solid and interesting, and this is even a leap forward from Vision Creation Newsun.

Mike Doughty, Haughty Melodic
Probably not the best album of the year due to its near-crippling overproduction and a fairly unnecessary guest appearance by Dave Matthews, M. Doughty's new solo album is less stripped down than his earlier efforts like Skittish but still distinctively Doughtian. The songwriting is amazing and will have something everyone will enjoy.
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Postby Catatonik » Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:02 pm

I have only heard one track from the new Primordial and have yet to get my paws on the Vision Bleak.

But I hope to get both soon
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Postby l Integrate Satan l » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:23 pm

Unpronounceable_Symbol wrote:My top 20, which I have also posted elsewhere:

20. Old Man's Child - Vermin
19. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
18. Love As Laughter - Laughter's Fifth
17. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
16. Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
15. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
14. Sunn O))) - Black One
13. Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers
12. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
11. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
10. Jesu - Jesu
9. Milemarker - Ominosity
8. Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
7. Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
6. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
5. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
4. Beck - Guero
3. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
2. Orthrelm - Ov
1. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

To be perfectly honest, after 14 it gets kinda weak, I had to reach to remember six more really good solid albums. I just had to represent the non-metal crowd.


The Mars Volta? Coheed and Cambria? Beck?
WHOA! you have absolutely no business listening to Old Man's Child, even though you were dead on putting "Vermin" first on the best 2005 albums list
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Postby Warheart » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:43 pm

I love stupid noobs that try to bitch about the personal opinion of others. :lol:
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Postby l Integrate Satan l » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:03 pm

Warheart wrote:I love stupid noobs that try to bitch about the personal opinion of others. :lol:


I love stupid people who use the word "noob"
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Postby Rozard » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:16 pm

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l Integrate Satan l wrote:even though you were dead on putting "Vermin" first on the best 2005 albums list

Unpronounceable_Symbol wrote:20. Old Man's Child - Vermin
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Postby l Integrate Satan l » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:02 pm

Rozard wrote:I love people who can read Image

l Integrate Satan l wrote:even though you were dead on putting "Vermin" first on the best 2005 albums list

Unpronounceable_Symbol wrote:20. Old Man's Child - Vermin


Freudian slip bitch, when someone makes a list they usually don't put it in descending order like a fuckin idiot
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Postby Unpronounceable_Symbol » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:48 pm

Unless they're like David Letterman or something. Or if they just copied the list down verbatim from the newspaper article they were writing.

Also:
I wrote:To be perfectly honest, after 14 it gets kinda weak, I had to reach to remember six more really good solid albums.

Vermin wasn't that good. It was fairly unoriginal even by the standards set by other symphonic black metal I've heard. My metal penis is obviously smaller than yours, I'll defer any opinions on metal to you, but as music it just wasn't that interesting.

Also: a Freudian slip is when you say what you're unconsciously thinking instead of what you mean to say, not when you misread a two digit number.
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Postby Rozard » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:50 pm

Unpronounceable_Symbol wrote:Unless they're like David Letterman or something. Or if they just copied the list down verbatim from the newspaper article they were writing.

Also:
I wrote:To be perfectly honest, after 14 it gets kinda weak, I had to reach to remember six more really good solid albums.

Vermin wasn't that good. It was fairly unoriginal even by the standards set by other symphonic black metal I've heard. My metal penis is obviously smaller than yours, I'll defer any opinions on metal to you, but as music it just wasn't that interesting.

Also: a Freudian slip is when you say what you're unconsciously thinking instead of what you mean to say, not when you misread a two digit number.

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