2005

Catch Thirtythree

Meshuggah

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 23 May 2005

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Autonomy Lost
2. Imprint of the Un-Saved
3. Disenchantment
4. The Paradoxical Spiral
5. Re-Inanimate
6. Entrapment
7. Mind's Mirrors
8. In Death — Is Life
9. In Death — Is Death
10. Shed
11. Personae non gratae
12. Dehumanization
13. Sum

Themata

Karnivool

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 7 February 2005

• Progressive metal
• Alternative metal

1. C.O.T.E.
2. Themata
3. Shutterspeed
4. Fear of the Sky
5. Roquefort
6. Lifelike
7. Scarabs
8. Sewn and Silent
9. Mauseum
10. Synops
11. Comitted for Clarity
12. Change (Part 1)

The Black Halo

Kamelot

• Label: Steamhammer
• Released: 14 March 2005

• Power metal
• Symphonic metal

1. March of the Mephisto
2. When the Lights Are Down
3. The Haunting (Somewhere in Time)
4. Soul Society
5. Interlude I — Dei Gratia
6. Abandoned
7. This Pain
8. Moonlight
9. Interlude II — Un assessinio molto silenzioso
10. The Black Halo
11. Nothing Ever Dies
12. Memento Mori
13. Interlude III — Midnight / Twelve Tolls for a New Day
14. Serenade

The Unreal Never Lived

YOB

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 23 August 2005

• Doom metal
• Sludge metal

1. Quantum Mystic
2. Grasping Air
3. Kosmos
4. The Mental Tyrant

Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

Akercocke

• Label: Earache
• Released: 10 October 2005

• Death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Verdelet
2. Seduced
3. Shelter from the Sand
4. Eyes of the Dawn
5. Abbandonna, Dying in the Sun
6. Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
7. Intractable
8. Seraphs and Silence
9. The Penance
10. Lex Talions

Mass III

Amenra

• Label: Hypertension
• Released: May 2005

• Atmospheric sludge metal

1. The Pain It Is Shapeless
2. Némelèndèlle
3. Am Kreuz
4. Le fils des faux

Gravity X

Truckfighters

• Label: Fuzzorama
• Released: 12 April 2005

• Stoner rock
• Heavy psych

1. Desert Cruiser
2. Gargarismo
3. Momentum
4. Freewheelin'
5. The Deal
6. Superfunk
7. Subfloor
8. Gweedo-Weedo
9. Manhattan Project
10. In Search of (The)
11. Intermission
12. A. Zapruder
13. Altered State

In Your Honor

Foo Fighters

• Label: Roswell
• Released: 13 June 2005

• Alternative rock
• Hard rock

1. In Your Honor
2. No Way Back
3. Best of You
4. DOA
5. Hell
6. The Last Song
7. Free Me
8. Resolve
9. The Deepest Blues Are Back
10. End Over End
11. Still
12. What If I Do?
13. Miracle
14. Another Round
15. Friend of a Friend
16. Over and out
17. On the Mend
18. Virginia Moon
19. Cold Day in the Sun
20. Razor

Ten Thousand Fists

Disturbed

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 20 September 2005

• Heavy metal
• Alternative metal

1. Ten Thousand Fists
2. Just Stop
3. Guarded
4. Deify
5. Stricken
6. I'm Alive
7. Sons of Plunder
8. Overburdened
9. Decadence
10. Forgiven
11. Land of Confusion
12. Sacred Lie
13. Pain Redefined
14. Avarice

Enigmatic Calling

Pagan's Mind

• Label: Limb
• Released: 18 April 2005

• Progressive metal
• Power metal

1. The Celestine Prophecy
2. Enigmatic Mission
3. Supermacy, Our Kind
4. Entrance to Infinity
5. Coming Home
6. Celestial Calling
7. Taken
8. Resurrection (Back in Time)
9. Appearance
10. Search for Life
11. New World Order

Alien

Strapping Young Lad

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 22 March 2005

• Industrial metal
• Progressive metal

1. Imperial
2. Skeksis
3. Shitstorm
4. Love?
5. Shine
6. We Ride
7. Possessions
8. Two Weeks
9. Thalamus
10. Zen
11. Info Dump

Chimaira

Chimaira

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 9 August 2005

• Groove metal
• Metalcore

1. Nothing Remains
2. Save Ourselves
3. Inside the Horror
4. Salvation
5. Comatose
6. Left for Dead
7. Everything You Love
8. Bloodlust
9. Pray for All
10. Lazarus

Mafia

Black Label Society

• Label: Artemis
• Released: 8 March 2005

• Heavy metal
• Southern metal

1. Fire It up
2. What's in You
3. Suicide Messiah
4. Forever Down
5. In This River
6. You Must Be Blind
7. Death March
8. Dr. Octavia
9. Say What You Will
10. Too Tough to Die
11. Electric Hellfire
12. Spread Your Wings
13. Been a Long Time
14. Dirt on the Grave

Masterpiece of Bitterness

Sólstafir

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 23 February 2005

• Post-metal
• Progressive metal

1. I Myself the Visionary Head
2. Nature Strutter
3. Bloodsoaked Velvet
4. Lux Fare
5. Ghosts of Light
6. Ritual of Fire
7. Nàttfari

Alaska

Between the Buried and Me

• Label: Victory
• Released: 6 September 2005

• Progressive metal
• Technical death metal
• Progressive metalcore

1. All Bodies
2. Alaska
3. Croakies and Boatshoes
4. Selkies: The Endless Obsession
5. Breathe in, Breathe out
6. Roboturner
7. Backwards Marathon
8. Medicine Wheel
9. The Primer
10. Autodidact
11. Laser Speed

Separation Sunday

The Hold Steady

• Label: Frenchkiss
• Released: 3 May 2005

• Post-punk revival
• Heartland rock

1. Hornets! Hornets!
2. Cattle and the Creeping Things
3. Your Little Hoodrat Friend
4. Banging Camp
5. Charlemagne in Sweatpants
6. Stevie Nix
7. Multitude of Casualties
8. Don't Let Me Explode
9. Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night
10. Crucifixion Cruise
11. How a Resurrection Really Feels

Mighty ReArranger

Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation

• Label: Sanctuary
• Released: 25 April 2005

• Progressive rock
• Worldbeat

1. Another Tribe
2. Shine It All Around
3. Freedom Fries
4. Tin Pan Valley
5. All the King's Horses
6. The Enchanter
7. Takamba
8. Dancing in Heaven
9. Somebody Knocking
10. Let the Four Winds Blow
11. Mighty ReArranger
12. Brother Ray

Candlemass

Candlemass

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 4 May 2005

• Epic doom metal
• Doom metal

1. Black Dwarf
2. Seven Silver Keys
3. Assassin of the Light
4. Copernicus
5. The Man Who Fell from the Sky
6. Witches
7. Born in a Tank
8. Spellbreaker
9. The Day and the Night
10. Mars and Volcanoes

The Gathering Wilderness

Primordial

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 7 February 2005

• Folk metal
• Pagan black metal

1. The Golden Spiral
2. The Gathering Wilderness
3. The Song of the Tomb
4. End of All Times (Martyrs Fire)
5. The Coffin Ships
6. Tragedy's Birth
7. Cities Carved in Stone

Pink

Boris

• Label: Diwphalanx
• Released: 12 November 2005

• Noise rock
• Stoner metal

1. 決別
2. Pink
3. スクリーンの女
4. 別になんでもない
5. ブラックアウト
6. Electric
7. 偽ブレッド
8. ぬるい炎
9. 6を3つ
10. My Machine
11. 俺を捨てたところ

Annihilation of the Wicked

Nile

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 23 May 2005

• Technical death metal

1. Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise
2. Cast Down the Heretic
3. Sacrifice Unto Sebek
4. User-Maat-Re
5. The Burning Pits of the Duat
6. Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath to the Inert One in the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns
7. Lashed to the Slave Stick
8. Spawn of Uamenti
9. Annihilation of the Wicked
10. Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten

Angel of Retribution

Judas Priest

• Label: Epic
• Released: 23 February 2005

• Heavy metal

1. Judas Rising
2. Deal with the Devil
3. Revolution
4. Worth Fighting for
5. Demonizer
6. Wheels of Fire
7. Angel
8. Hellrider
9. Eulogy
10. Lochness

Verisäkeet

Moonsorrow

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 23 February 2005

• Folk metal
• Viking metal

1. Karhunkynsi
2. Haaska
3. Pimeä
4. Jotunheim
5. Kaiku

Character

Dark Tranquility

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 19 January 2005

• Melodic death metal

1. The New Build
2. Through Smudged Lenses
3. Out of Nothing
4. The Endless Feed
5. Lost to Apathy
6. Mind Matters
7. One Thought
8. Dry Run
9. Am I 1?
10. Senses Tied
11. Me Negation

Enemy of God

Kreator

• Label: SPV
• Released: 10 January 2005

• Thrash metal

1. Enemy of God
2. Impossible Brutality
3. Suicide Terrorist
4. World Anarchy
5. Dystopia
6. Voices of the Dead
7. Murder Fantasies
8. When Death Takes Its Dominion
9. One Evil Comes — A Million Follow
10. Dying Race Apocalypse
11. Under a Total Blackened Sky
12. The Ancient Plague

Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Exodus

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 4 October 2005

• Thrash metal

1. Raze
2. Deathamphetamine
3. Karma's Messenger
4. Shudder to Think
5. I Am Abomination
6. Altered Boy
7. Going Going Gone
8. Now Thy Death Day Come
9. .44 Magnum Opus
10. Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Z

My Morning Jacket

• Label: ATO
• Released: 4 October 2005

• Neo-psychedelia

1. Worldless Chrorus
2. It Beats 4 U
3. Gideon
4. What a Wonderful Man
5. Off the Record
6. Into the Woods
7. Anytime
8. Lay Low
9. Knot Comes Loose
10. Dondante

Blessed Black Wings

High on Fire

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 1 February 2005

• Stoner metal
• SLudge metal

1. Devilution
2. The Face of Oblivion
3. Brothers in the Wind
4. Cometh Down Messiah
5. Blessed Black Wings
6. Anointing of Seer
7. To Cross the Bridge
8. Silver Back
9. Sons of Thunder

Lullabies to Paralyze

Queens of the Stone Age

• Label: Interscope
• Released: 22 March 2005

• Stoner rock
• Alternative rock

1. This Lullaby
2. Medication
3. Everybody Knows That You Are Insane
4. Tangled up in Plaid
5. Burn the Witch
6. In My Head
7. Little Sister
8. I Never Came
9. Someone's in the Wolf
10. The Blood Is Love
11. Skin on Skin
12. Broken Box
13. You Gor a Killer Scene There, Man ...
14. Long Slow Goodbye

Plans

Death Cab for Cutie

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 30 August 2005

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

1. Marching Bands of Manhattan
2. Soul Meets Body
3. Summer Skin
4. Different Names for the Same Thing
5. I Will Follow You into the Dark
6. Your Heart Is an Empty Room
7. Someday You Will Be Loved
8. Crooked Teeth
9. What Sarah Said
10. Brothers on a Hotel Bed
11. Stable Song

Picaresque

The Decemberists

• Label: Kill Rock Stars
• Released: 22 March 2005

• Progressive folk
• Baroque pop

1. The Infanta
2. We Both Go Down Together
3. Eli, the Barrow Boy
4. The Sporting Life
5. The Bagman's Gambit
6. From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)
7. Sixteen Military Wives
8. The Engine Driver
9. On the Bus Mall
10. The Mariner's Revenge Song
11. Of Angels and Angels

The Deep End

Madrugada

• Label: EMI
• Released: 28 February 2005

• Alternative rock

1. The Kids Are on High Street
2. On Your Side
3. Hold on to You
4. Stories from the Streets
5. Running out of Time
6. Lost Gospel
7. Elektro Vakuum
8. Subterranean Sunlight
9. Hard to Come Back
10. Ramona
11. Slow Builder
12. Sail Away

Ascendancy

Trivium

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 15 March 2005

• Metalcore
• Thrash metal

1. The End of Everything
2. Rain
3. Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr
4. Drowned and Torn Asunder
5. Ascendancy
6. A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation
7. Like Light to the Flies
8. Dying in Your Arms
9. The Deceived
10. Suffocating Sight
11. Departure
12. Declaration

Octavarium

Dream Theater

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 7 June 2005

• Progressive metal

1. The Root of All Evil
2. The Answer Lies Within
3. These Walls
4. I Walk Beside You
5. Panic Attack
6. Never Enough
7. Sacrificed Sons
8. Octavarium

Hardcore Superstar

Hardcore Superstar

• Label: Gain
• Released: 2 November 2005

• Hard rock
• Glam metal

1. Kick on the Upper Class
2. Bag on Your Head
3. Last Forever
4. She's Offbeat
5. We Don't Celebrate Sundays
6. Hateful
7. Wild Boys
8. My Good Reputation
9. Cry Your Eyes out
10. Simple Man
11. Blood on Me
12. Standin' on the Verge

Those Once Loyal

Bolt Thrower

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 11 November 2005

• Death metal

1. At First Light
2. Entrenched
3. The Killchain
4. Granite Wall
5. Those One Loyal
6. Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)
7. Last Stand of Humanity
8. Salvo
9. When Cannons Fade

Deadwing

Porcupine Tree

• Label: Lava
• Released: 24 March 2005

• Progressive rock
• Progressive metal

1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. Start of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arm Shattering

This Godless Endeavor

Nevermore

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 26 July 2005

• Progressive metal
• Thrash metal

1. Born
2. Final Product
3. My Acid Words
4. Bittersweet Feast
5. Sentient 6
6. Medicated Nation
7. The Holocaust of Thought
8. Sell My Heart for Stones
9. The Psalm of Lydia
10. A Future Uncertain
11. This Godless Endeavor

An Ånswer Can Be Found

CKY

• Label: Island
• Released: 28 June 2005

• Stoner rock

1. Suddenly Tragic
2. The Way You Lived
3. Dressed in Decay
4. Familiar Realm
5. All Power to Slaves
6. Tripled Manic State
7. Behind the Screams
8. Deceit Is Striking Gold
9. As the Tables Turn
10. Sniped
11. Don't Hold Your Breath

Rapture of the Deep

Deep Purple

• Label: Edel
• Released: 24 October 2005

• Hard rock
• Progressive rock

1. Money Talks
2. Girls Like That
3. Wrong Man
4. Rapture of the Deep
5. Clearly Quite Absurd
6. Don't Let Go
7. Back to Back
8. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
9. Junkyard Blues
10. Before Time Began

Tyranny of Souls

Bruce Dickinson

• Label: Sanctuary
• Released: 23 May 2005

• Progressive metal
• Heavy metal

1. Mars Wthin
2. Abduction
3. Soul Intruders
4. Kill Devil Hill
5. Navigate the Seas of the Sun
6. River of No Return
7. Power of the Sun
8. Devil on a Hog
9. Believil
10. A Tyranny of Souls

Aerial

Kate Bush

• Label: EMI
• Released: 4 November 2005

• Art pop
• Progressive pop

1. King of the Mountain
2. π
3. Bertie
4. Mrs. Bartolozzi
5. How to Be Invisible
6. Joanni
7. A Coral Room
8. Prelude
9. Prologue
10. An Architect's Dream
11. The Painter's Link
12. Sunset
13. Aerial Tal
14. Somewhere in Between
15. Nocturn
16. Aerial

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

• Label: BMG
• Released: 17 March 2005

• Gothic metal
• Gothic rock

1. Don't Belong
2. Close Your Eyes
3. Grey
4. Redshift
5. Forever After
6. Sun Fading
7. Laws of Cause
8. All You Leave Behind
9. Accept the Pain
10. Shine
11. Spirit
12. Over the Madness

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Coheed and Cambria

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 20 September 2005

• Progressive metal
• Emo

1. Keeping the Blade
2. Always & Never
3. Welcome Home
4. Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial)
5. Crossing the Frame
6. Apollo I: The Writing Writer
7. Once upon Your Dead Body
8. Wake up
9. The Suffering
10. The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
11. Mother May I
12. The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
13. The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
14. The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
15. The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

From Mars to Sirius

Gojira

• Label: Listenable
• Released: 27 September 2005

• Technical death metal
• Progressive metal

1. Ocean Planet
2. Backbone
3. From the Sky
4. Unicorn
5. Where Dragons Dwell
6. The Heaviest Matter in the Universe
7. Flying Whales
8. In the Wilderness
9. World to Come
10. From Mars
11. To Sirius
12. Global Warming

Out of Exile

Audioslave

• Label: Epic
• Released: 23 May 2005

• Alternative rock
• Hard rock

1. Your Time Has Come
2. Out of Exile
3. Be Yourself
4. Doesn't Remind Me
5. Drown Me Slowly
6. Heavens Dead
7. The Worm
8. Man or Animal
9. Yesterday to Tomorrow
10. Dandelion
11. #1 Zero
12. The Curse

Mezmerize

System of a Down

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 17 May 2005

• Progressive metal
• Alternative metal

1. Soldier Side — Intro
2. B.Y.O.B.
3. Revenga
4. Cigaro
5. Radio/Video
6. This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm on This Song
7. Violent Pornography
8. Question!
9. Sad Statue
10. Old School Hollywood
11. Lost in Hollywood

Frances the Mute

The Mars Volta

• Label: Universal
• Released: 11 February 2005

• Progressive rock
• Jazz fusion

1. Cygnus ... Vismund Cygnus
2. The Widow
3. L'Via L'Viaquez
4. Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
5. Cassandra Gemini

Robot Hive / Exodus

Clutch

• Label: DRT Entertainment
• Released: 21 June 2005

• Blues rock
• Stoner rock

1. The Incomparable Mr. Flannery
2. Burning Beard
3. Gullah
4. Mice and Gods
5. Pulaski Skyway
6. 10001110101
7. Small Upsetters
8. Circus Maximus
9. Tripping the Alarm
10. 10,000 Witnesses
11. Land of Pleasant Living
12. Gravel Road
13. Who's Been Talking?

Ghost Reveries

Opeth

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 29 August 2005

• Progressive metal
• Progressive death metal

1. Ghost of Perdition
2. The Baying of the Hounds
3. Beneath the Mire
4. Atonement
5. Reverie / Harlequin Forest
6. Hours of Wealth
7. The Grand Conjuration
8. Isolation Years