My favourite albums from 2004

1. 50

   The Second Coming

   Church of Misery

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)
   2. Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)
   3. Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo) ●
   4. Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)
   5. One Way ... or Another
   6. Candyman (Dean Coril)
   7. El Topo

   Genres

   • Stoner metal
   • Doom metal

2. 49

   Dünya Yalan Söylüyor

   Mor ve Ötesi

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Yardım Et
   2. Cambaz
   3. Bir Derdim Var ●
   4. Re
   5. Sevda Çiçeği
   6. Serseri
   7. Aşk İçinde
   8. Az Çok
   9. Son Deneme
   10. Uyan

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Pop rock

3. 48

   Love Is Hell

   Ryan Adams

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Political Scientist
   2. Afraid Not Scared
   3. This House Is Not for Sale
   4. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home ●
   5. Love Is Hell
   6. Wonderwall
   7. The Shadowlands
   8. World War 24
   9. Avalanche
   10. My Blue Manhattan
   11. Please Do Not Let Me Go
   12. City Rain, City Streets
   13. I See Monsters
   14. English Girls Approximately
   15. Thank You Louise
   16. Hotel Chelsea Nights

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Alt-country

4. 47

   Los Lonely Boys

   Los Lonely Boys

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Señorita
   2. Heaven ●
   3. Crazy Dream
   4. Dime mi amor
   5. Hollywood
   6. More Than Love
   7. Nobody Else
   8. Onda
   9. Real Emotions
   10. Tell Me Why
   11. Velvet Sky
   12. La contestación

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Latin rock

5. 46

   Iron

   Ensiferum

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Ferrum Aeternum
   2. Iron
   3. Sword Chant
   4. Mourning Heart — Interlude
   5. Tale of Revenge
   6. Lost in Despair
   7. Slayer of Light
   8. Into Battle
   9. LAI LAI HEI ●
   10. Tears

   Genres

   • Folk metal
   • Power metal

6. 45

   Lemuria

   Therion

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Typhon
   2. Uthrak Runa
   3. Three Ships of Berik (Part 1: Calling to AArms and Fighting the Battle)
   4. Three Ships of Berik (Part 2: Victory!)
   5. Lemuria ●
   6. Quetzalcoatl
   7. The Dreams of Swedenborg
   8. An Arrow from the Sun
   9. Abraxas
   10. Feuer Overtüre / Prometheus Entfesselt

   Genres

   • Symphonic metal
   • Gothic metal

7. 44

   Catch for Us the Foxes

   mewithoutYou

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Torches Together
   2. January 1979 ●
   3. Tie Me up! Untie Me!
   4. Leaf
   5. Disaster Tourism
   6. Seven Sisters
   7. The Soviet
   8. Paper Hanger
   9. My Exit, Unfair
   10. Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)
   11. Carousels
   12. Son of a Widow

   Genres

   • Post-hardcore
   • Art rock

8. 43

   The Spell of Retribution

   The Chasm

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. From the Curse, a Scourge ...
   2. The Omnipotent Codex
   3. Conquer & Warlord
   4. Manifest My Intervention
   5. Fortress
   6. Retribution of the Lost Years (I, the Pastfinder III) ●
   7. Conjuring the New Apocalypse
   8. The Eclipse: Monument to the Empire
   9. Remains of the Covenant
   10. Eternal Cycle of Delusion

   Genres

   • Death metal
   • Progressive metal

9. 42

   Back to Times of Splendor

   Disillusion

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. ... And the Mirror Cracked
   2. Fall
   3. Alone I Stand in Fires
   4. Back to Times of Splendor ●
   5. A Day by the Lake
   6. The Sleep of Restless Hours

   Genres

   • Progressive death metal

10. 41

    Thunder, Lightning, Strike

    The Go! Team

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Panther Dash
    2. Ladyflash
    3. Feelgood by Numbers
    4. The Power Is on ●
    5. Get It Together
    6. Junior Kickstart
    7. Air Raid GTR
    8. Bottle Rocket
    9. Friendship Update
    10. Huddle Formation
    11. Everyone's V.I.P. to Someone

    Genres

    • Indietronica
    • Neo-Psychedelia

11. 40

    Epitaph

    Necrophagist

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Stabwound
    2. The Stillborn One
    3. Ignominious & Pale
    4. Diminished to B ●
    5. Epitaph
    6. Only Ash Remains
    7. Seven
    8. Symbiotic in Theory

    Genres

    • Technical death metal

12. 39

    You Fail Me

    Converge

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. First Light
    2. Last Light
    3. Black Cloud
    4. Drop out
    5. Hope Street
    6. Heartless
    7. You Fail Me ●
    8. In Her Shadow
    9. Eagles Become Vultures
    10. Death King
    11. In Her Blood
    12. Hanging Moon

    Genres

    • Metalcore
    • Post-hardcore

13. 38

    Salvation

    Cult of Luna

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Echoes
    2. Vague Illusions
    3. Leave Me Here ●
    4. Waiting for You
    5. Adrift
    6. White Cell
    7. Crossing Over
    8. Into the Beyond

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Sludge metal

14. 37

    Marbles

    Marillion

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Invisible Man
    2. Marbles I
    3. Genie
    4. Fantastic Place
    5. The Only Unforgivable Thing
    6. Marbles II
    7. Ocean Cloud
    8. Marbles III
    9. The Damage
    10. Don't Hurt Yourself
    11. You're Gone ●
    12. Angelina
    13. Drilling Holes
    14. Marbles IV
    15. Neverland

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Alternative rock

15. 36

    Songs of Darkness, Words of Light

    My Dying Bride

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Wreckage of My Flesh
    2. The Scarlet Garden
    3. Catherine Blake
    4. My Wine in Silence ●
    5. The Prize of Beauty
    6. The Blue Lotus
    7. And My Fury Stands Ready
    8. A Doomed Lover

    Genres

    • Death-Doom
    • Gothic metal

16. 35

    Around the Sun

    R.E.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Leaving New York
    2. Electron Blue
    3. The Outsiders
    4. Make It All Okay
    5. Final Straw ●
    6. I Wanted to Be Wrong
    7. Wanderlust
    8. Boy in the Well
    9. Aftermath
    10. High Speed Train
    11. The Worst Joke Ever
    12. The Ascent of Man
    13. Around the Sun

    Genres

    • Alternative rock

17. 34

    Inferno

    Motörhead

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Terminal Show
    2. Killers
    3. In the Name of the Tragedy
    4. Suicide
    5. Life's a Bitch
    6. Down on Me
    7. In the Black
    8. Fight
    9. In the Year of the Wolf
    10. Keys to the Kingdom
    11. Smiling Like a Killer
    12. Whorehouse Blues ●

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Speed metal

18. 33

    Tempo of the Damned

    Exodus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Star Spangled Banner
    2. War Is My Shepherd
    3. Blacklist ●
    4. Shroud of Urine
    5. Forward March
    6. Culling the Herd
    7. Sealed with a Fist
    8. Throwing Down
    9. Impaler
    10. Tempo of the Damned

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

19. 32

    Nightmares Made Flesh

    Bloodbath

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Cancer of the Soul
    2. Brave New Hell
    3. Soul Evisceration
    4. Outnumbering the Day
    5. Feeding the Undead
    6. Eaten ●
    7. Bastard Son of God
    8. Year of the Cadaver Race
    9. The Ascension
    10. Draped in Disease
    11. Stillborn Saviour
    12. Blood Vortex

    Genres

    • Death metal

20. 31

    Lord of Hypocrisy

    Pagan Altar

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Lords of Hypocrisy
    2. Satan's Henchmen
    3. Sentinels of Hate
    4. Armageddon ●
    5. The Interlude
    6. The Aftermath
    7. The Masquerade
    8. The Devil Came Down to Brockley
    9. March of the Dead

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Doom metal

21. 30

    Reise Reise

    Rammstein

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Reise, Reise
    2. Mein Teil
    3. Dalai Lama
    4. Kaine Lust
    5. Los
    6. Amerika
    7. Moskau
    8. Morgenstern
    9. Stein um Stein
    10. Ohne Dich ●
    11. Amout

    Genres

    • Industrial metal

22. 29

    Monolithic Baby!

    Monster Magnet

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Slut Machine
    2. Supercruel
    3. On the Verge
    4. Unbroken (Hotel Baby)
    5. Radiation Day
    6. Monolithic ●
    7. The Right Stuff
    8. There's No Way out of Here
    9. Master of Light
    10. Too Bad
    11. Ultimate EVerything
    12. CNN War Theme

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Stoner metal

23. 28

    Isa

    Enslaved

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Intro: Green Reflection
    2. Lunar Force ●
    3. Isa
    4. Ascension
    5. Bounded by Allegiance
    6. Violet Dawning
    7. Return to Yggdrasill
    8. Secrets of the Flesh
    9. Neogenesis
    10. Outro: Communion (excerpt)

    Genres

    • Progressive black metal
    • Viking metal
    • Post-metal

24. 27

    A Ghost Is Born

    Wilco

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. At Least That's What You Said ●
    2. Hell Is Chrome
    3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    4. Muzzle of Bees
    5. Hummingbird
    6. Handshake Drugs
    7. Wishful Thinking
    8. Company in My Back
    9. I'm a Wheel
    10. Theologians
    11. Less Than You Think
    12. The Late Greats

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Art rock

25. 26

    Auf der Maur

    Melissa Auf der Maur

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lightning Is My Girl
    2. Followed the Waves ●
    3. Real a Lie
    4. Head Unbound
    5. Taste You
    6. Beast of Honour
    7. I'll Be Anything You Want
    8. My Foggy Notion
    9. Would If I Could
    10. Overpower Thee
    11. SKin Receiver
    12. I Need I Want I Will

    Genres

    • Alternative rock

26. 25

    Prophecy

    Soulfly

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Prophecy ●
    2. Living Sacrifice
    3. Execution Style
    4. Defeath U
    5. Mars
    6. I Believe
    7. Moses
    8. Born Again Anarchist
    9. Porrada
    10. In the Meantime
    11. Soulfly UV
    12. Wings

    Genres

    • Groove metal

27. 24

    Soundtrack to Your Escape

    In Flames

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. F(r)iend
    2. The Quiet Place ●
    3. Dead ALone
    4. Touch of Red
    5. Like You Better Dead
    6. My Sweet Shadow
    7. Evil in a Closet
    8. In Search for I
    9. Borders and Shading
    10. Superhero of the Computer Rage
    11. Dial 595-Escape
    12. Bottled

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Alternative metal

28. 23

    Wintersun

    Wintersun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Beyond the Dark Sun
    2. Winter Madness
    3. Sleeping Stars
    4. Battle Against Time
    5. Death and the Healing
    6. Starchild
    7. Beautiful Death
    8. Sadness and Hate ●

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Power metal

29. 22

    Thieving from the House of God

    Orange Goblin

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Some You Win, Some You Lose ●
    2. One Room, One Axe, One Outcome
    3. Hard Luck
    4. Black Egg
    5. You're Not the One (Who Can Save Rock 'n' Roll)
    6. If It Ain't Broke, Break It
    7. Lazy Mary
    8. Round up the Horses
    9. Tosh Lines
    10. Just Got Paid
    11. Crown of Locusts

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Heavy metal

30. 21

    Jupiters Darling

    Heart

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Make Me
    2. Oldest Story in the World
    3. Things
    4. The Perfect Goodbye ●
    5. Enough
    6. Move on
    7. I Need the Rain
    8. I Give up
    9. Vainglorious
    10. No Other Love
    11. Led to One
    12. Down the Nile
    13. I'm Fine
    14. Fallen Ones
    15. Lost Angel
    16. Helllo Moonglow

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Folk rock

31. 20

    Shadows Collide with People

    Johnn Frusciante

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Carvel
    2. Omission
    3. Regret ●
    4. Ricky
    5. Second Walk
    6. Every Person
    7. -00Ghost27
    8. Wednesday's Song
    9. This Cold
    10. Failure33Object
    11. Song to Sing When I'm Lonely
    12. Time Goes Back
    13. In Relief
    14. Water
    15. Cut-Out
    16. Chances
    17. 23 go in the End
    18. The Slaughter

    Genres

    • Avant-garde rock
    • Alternative rock

32. 19

    Colour Haze

    Colour Haze

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Mountain
    2. Tao Nr. 43
    3. Did ét it
    4. Love ●
    5. Solitude
    6. Peace, Brothers & Sisters!
    7. Flowers

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Heavy psych

33. 18

    The Eye of Every Storm

    Neurosis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Burn
    2. No River to Take Me Home
    3. The Eye of Every Storm ●
    4. Left to Wander
    5. Shelter
    6. A Season in the Sky
    7. Bridges
    8. I Can See You

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

34. 17

    Contraband

    Velvet Revolver

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Sucker Train Blues
    2. Do It for the Kids
    3. Big Machine
    4. Illegal I Song
    5. Spectacle
    6. Fall to Pieces
    7. Headspace ●
    8. Superhuman
    9. Set Me Free
    10. You Got No Right
    11. Slither
    12. Dirty Little Thing
    13. Loving the Alien

    Genres

    • Hard rock

35. 16

    Gold Medal

    The Donnas

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I Don't Want to Know (If You Don't Want Me)
    2. Friends Like Mine
    3. Don't Break Me Down
    4. Fall Behind Me
    5. Is That All You've Got for Me
    6. It's So Hard
    7. The Gold Medal ●
    8. Out of My Hands
    9. It Takes One to Know One
    10. Revolver
    11. Have You No Pride

    Genres

    • Hard rock

36. 15

    One Day Remains

    Alter Bridge

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Find the Real
    2. One Day Remains
    3. Open Your Eyes
    4. Burn It Down
    5. Metalingus
    6. Broken Wings
    7. In Loving Memory
    8. Down to My Last
    9. Watch Your Words
    10. Shed My Skin
    11. The End Is Here ●

    Genres

    • Alternative metal

37. 14

    Tűnő Idő Tárlat

    Thy Catafalque

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Csillagkohó ●
    2. Neath Waters
    3. Bolygő, Bolyongó
    4. Kék Ég Karaván
    5. Héja-Nász Az Avaron
    6. Zápor
    7. Az Ősanya Szól Ivadékaihoz
    8. Varjak Fekszenek

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Post-black metal

38. 13

    Since the Day It All Came Down

    Insomnium

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Nocturne
    2. The Day It All Came Down
    3. Daughter of the Moon ●
    4. The Moment of Reckoning
    5. Bereavement
    6. Undet the Plaintive Sky
    7. Resonance
    8. Death Walked the Earth
    9. Disengagement
    10. Closing Words
    11. Song of the Forlorn Son

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

39. 12

    Hot Fuss

    The Killers

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
    2. Mr. Brightside
    3. Smile Like You Mean It
    4. Somebody Told Me ●
    5. All These Things That I've Done
    6. Andy, You're a Star
    7. On Top
    8. Change Your Mind
    9. Believe Me Natalie
    10. Midnight Show
    11. Everything Will Be Alright

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • New wave

40. 11

    The System Has Failed

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Blackmail the Universe
    2. Die Dead Enough
    3. Kick the Chair
    4. The Scorpion
    5. Tears in a Vial
    6. I Know Jack
    7. Back in the Day ●
    8. Something That I'm Not
    9. Truth Be Told
    10. Of Mice and Men
    11. Shadow of Deth
    12. My Kingdom

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Thrash metal

41. 10

    Consider the Birds

    Wovenhand

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Sparrow Falls
    2. Bleary Eyed Duty
    3. To Make a Ring
    4. Off the Cuff
    5. Chest of Drawers
    6. Oil on Panel
    7. The Speaking Hands ●
    8. Down in Yon Forest
    9. Tin Finger
    10. Into the Piano

    Genres

    • Gothic americana
    • Folk

42. 9

    Panopticon

    Isis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. So Did We
    2. Backlit ●
    3. In Fiction
    4. Will Dissolve
    5. Syndic Calls
    6. Altered Course
    7. Grinning Mouths

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • post-rock

43. 8

    Once

    Nightwish

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dark Chest of Wonders
    2. Wish I Had an Angel
    3. Nemo
    4. Planet Hell
    5. Creek Mary's Blood
    6. The Siren
    7. Dead Gardens
    8. Romanticide
    9. Ghost Love Score ●
    10. Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan
    11. Higher Than Hope

    Genres

    • Symphonic metal
    • power metal

44. 7

    American Idiot

    Green Day

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. American Idiot
    2. Jesus of Suburbia
    3. Holiday
    4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams ●
    5. Are We the Waiting
    6. St. Jimmy
    7. Give Me Novacaine
    8. She's a Rebel
    9. Extraordinary Girl
    10. Letterbomb
    11. Wake Me up When September Ends
    12. Homecoming
    13. Whatsername

    Genres

    • Punk rock

45. 6

    Never Apologise, Never Explain

    Therapy?

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Rise up (Make Yourself Well)
    2. Die Like a Motherfucker
    3. Perish the Thought
    4. Here Be Monster
    5. So Called Life
    6. Panic!
    7. Polar Bear ●
    8. Rock You Monkey
    9. Dead
    10. Long Distance
    11. This Ship Is Skinking
    12. Save the Sermon
    13. Last One to Heaven's a Loser

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • punk rock

46. 5

    Ashes of the Wake

    Lamb of God

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Laid to Rest ●
    2. Hourglass
    3. Now You've Got Something to Die for
    4. The Faded Line
    5. Omerta
    6. Blood of the Scribe
    7. One Gun
    8. Break You
    9. What I've Become
    10. Ashes of the Wake
    11. Remorse Is for the Dead
    12. Another Nail for Your Coffin

    Genres

    • Groove metal

47. 4

    Leviathan

    Mastodon

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Blood and Thunder
    2. I Am Ahab
    3. Seabeast ●
    4. Island
    5. Iron Tusk
    6. Megalodon
    7. Naked Burn
    8. Aqua Dementia
    9. Hearts Alive
    10. Joseph Merrick

    Genres

    • Sludge metal
    • progressive metal

48. 3

    Hangover Music Vol. VI

    Black Label Society

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Crazy or High
    2. Queen of Sorrow
    3. Steppin' Stone ●
    4. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
    5. Takillya (Estyabon)
    6. Won't Find It Here
    7. She Deserves a Free Ride (Val's Song)
    8. House of Doom
    9. Damage Is Done
    10. Layne
    11. Woman Don't Cry
    12. No Other
    13. Whiter Shade of Pale
    14. Once More
    15. Fear

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • acoustic rock

49. 2

    Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Get Ready for Love
    2. Cannibal's Hymn
    3. Hiding All Away
    4. Messiah Ward
    5. There She Goesm My Beautiful World
    6. Nature Boy
    7. Abattoir Blues
    8. Let the Bells Ring
    9. Fable of the Brown Ape
    10. The Lyre of Orpheus
    11. Breathless
    12. Babe, You Turn Me on
    13. Easy Money ●
    14. Supernaturally
    15. Spell
    16. Carry Me
    17. O Children

    Genres

    • Gothic rock
    • blues rock

50. 1

    Blast Tyrant

    Clutch

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Mercury
    2. Profits of Doom
    3. The Mob Goes Wild
    4. Cypress Grove
    5. Promoter (of Earthbound Causes)
    6. The Regulator
    7. Worm Drink
    8. Army of Bono
    9. Spleen Merchant
    10. (In the Wake of) The Swollen Goat
    11. Weathermaker
    12. Subtle Hustle
    13. Ghost ●
    14. (Notes from the Trial of) La Curandera
    15. WYSIWYG

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • blues rock