My favourite albums from 2005

1. 50

   Catch Thirtythree

   Meshuggah

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Avant-garde metal

2. 49

   Themata

   Karnivool

   
   

   Tracklist

   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)

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Alternative metal

3. 48

   The Black Halo

   Kamelot

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Power metal
   • Symphonic metal

4. 47

   The Unreal Never Lived

   YOB

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Doom metal
   • Sludge metal

5. 46

   Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

   Akercocke

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Death metal
   • Progressive metal

6. 45

   Mass III

   Amenra

   
   

   Tracklist

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

   Genres

   • Atmospheric sludge metal

7. 44

   Gravity X

   Truckfighters

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Stoner rock
   • Heavy psych

8. 43

   In Your Honor

   Foo Fighters

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Hard rock

9. 42

   Ten Thousand Fists

   Disturbed

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Alternative metal

10. 41

    Enigmatic Calling

    Pagan's Mind

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Power metal

11. 40

    Alien

    Strapping Young Lad

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Industrial metal
    • Progressive metal

12. 39

    Chimaira

    Chimaira

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Metalcore

13. 38

    Mafia

    Black Label Society

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Southern metal

14. 37

    Masterpiece of Bitterness

    Sólstafir

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive metal

15. 36

    Alaska

    Between the Buried and Me

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Technical death metal
    • Progressive metalcore

16. 35

    Separation Sunday

    The Hold Steady

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Post-punk revival
    • Heartland rock

17. 34

    Mighty ReArranger

    Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Worldbeat

18. 33

    Candlemass

    Candlemass

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Epic doom metal
    • Doom metal

19. 32

    The Gathering Wilderness

    Primordial

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk metal
    • Pagan black metal

20. 31

    Pink

    Boris

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Noise rock
    • Stoner metal

21. 30

    Annihilation of the Wicked

    Nile

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical death metal

22. 29

    Angel of Retribution

    Judas Priest

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

23. 28

    Verisäkeet

    Moonsorrow

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Folk metal
    • Viking metal

24. 27

    Character

    Dark Tranquility

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

25. 26

    Enemy of God

    Kreator

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

26. 25

    Shovel Headed Kill Machine

    Exodus

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

27. 24

    Z

    My Morning Jacket

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Neo-psychedelia

28. 23

    Blessed Black Wings

    High on Fire

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • SLudge metal

29. 22

    Lullabies to Paralyze

    Queens of the Stone Age

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Alternative rock

30. 21

    Plans

    Death Cab for Cutie

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Indie rock
    • Alternative rock

31. 20

    Picaresque

    The Decemberists

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive folk
    • Baroque pop

32. 19

    The Deep End

    Madrugada

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock

33. 18

    Ascendancy

    Trivium

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Metalcore
    • Thrash metal

34. 17

    Octavarium

    Dream Theater

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

35. 16

    Hardcore Superstar

    Hardcore Superstar

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Glam metal

36. 15

    Those Once Loyal

    Bolt Thrower

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Death metal

37. 14

    Deadwing

    Porcupine Tree

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Progressive metal

38. 13

    This Godless Endeavor

    Nevermore

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Thrash metal

39. 12

    An Ånswer Can Be Found

    CKY

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Stoner rock

40. 11

    Rapture of the Deep

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Progressive rock

41. 10

    Tyranny of Souls

    Bruce Dickinson

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Heavy metal

42. 9

    Aerial

    Kate Bush

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art pop
    • Progressive pop

43. 8

    Paradise Lost

    Paradise Lost

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Gothic metal
    • Gothic rock

44. 7

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

    Coheed and Cambria

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Emo

45. 6

    From Mars to Sirius

    Gojira

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Progressive metal

46. 5

    Out of Exile

    Audioslave

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Hard rock

47. 4

    Mezmerize

    System of a Down

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Alternative metal

48. 3

    Frances the Mute

    The Mars Volta

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Jazz fusion

49. 2

    Robot Hive / Exodus

    Clutch

    
    

    Tracklist

    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?

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Stoner rock

50. 1

    Ghost Reveries

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Progressive death metal