This year has been so good, it's not even funny!

I'll TRY to do a top 10...

1. Scott Walker - The Drift
2. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
3. The Roots - Game Theory
4. Joanna Newsom - YS <--- biggest surprise of the year for me
5. Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
6. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
7. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
8. Foetus - Love
9. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
10. Isis - In the Absence of Truth

Congratulations on having probably the best top ten list I've read on here. Except maybe for PJ they are all winners!

hold on a minute... again with the Scott Walker!

i only checked his music out recently and it must be the oddest album ive heard this year! ...30 century man it aint!
dont get me wrong, i enjoy listening to it in bits and pieces but its so much hard work i dont think i could listen to it all the way through without losing my grasp on reality.

cheers guys for bringing it to my attention

add

DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA - The butcher's ballroom

to my list.
And i'm still on the 4th track.

god this has given me a humongous serotonin shot

just ordered that yesterday!! listened to "Balrog Boogie" and "Heroines" and automatically ordered it!sounds like really cool stuff and can't wait to hear the full album!

hold on a minute... again with the Scott Walker!

i only checked his music out recently and it must be the oddest album ive heard this year! ...30 century man it aint!
dont get me wrong, i enjoy listening to it in bits and pieces but its so much hard work i dont think i could listen to it all the way through without losing my grasp on reality.

cheers guys for bringing it to my attention

Well, by listing it as #1 I didn't by any means mean to imply that I listen to it 24/7 or anything like that. I just think it's remarkable what he was able to achieve on that album. Just the most impressive thing I've heard this year... A lot of it has to do with the line I bolded.

Bleakest. Album. Ever.

OH and you're welcome!

Hmm add Disillusion - Gloria to my list. Maybe UneXpect too, I'll have to give that a couple more spins.

10.) Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
10.) Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
9.) Green Carnation - The Acoustic Verses
8.) Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
7.) Spawn of Possession - Noctambulent
6.) OSI - Free
5.) Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
4.) Ihsahn - The Adversary
3.) Wastefall - Self Exile
2.) Amorphis - Eclipse
1.) DTB - Synchestra

Two 10 spots because I can't decide which is better!

Honorable mentions for the new Sikth, Into Eternity, and Floodline albums.

In no particular order:

The Devin Townsend Band: Synchestra
Strapping Young Lad: The New Black
Katatonia: The Great Cold Distance
Deftones: Saturday Night Wrist
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Ihsahn: The Adversary
I: Between Two Worlds
Green Carnation: The Acoustic Verses
Mastodon: Blood Mountain
Tool: 10.000 Days
Sigh: Gallows Gallery
Pure Reason Revolution: The Dark Third
Tom Waits: Orphans

I've heard 40 fucking albums this year!! That's an unprecedented record for me, god bless the (wo)man who invented LimeWire. \m/ Anyway I only bought 11 of those 40 so here they are, they're all good;

1. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
2. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
3. The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
4. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5. In Flames - Come Clarity
6. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
7. Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
8. Gwar - Beyond Hell
9. Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay
10. Shadows Fall - Fallout From The War
11. Devin Townsend - The Hummer

In no order:

Tool - 10,000 Days
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Enslaved - Ruun
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Slayer - Christ Illusion

[EphelDuath666]

that's what you get when you judge too fast!!! Gotta re-do my list.

sooooooo:
01. DTB - Synchestra/Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
02. Negura Bunget - Om
03. SYL - The New Black
04. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
05. Tool - 10,000 Days
06. Devin Townsend - The Hummer
07. Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
08. Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
09. Melechesh - Emissaries
10. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
11. Ihsahn - The Adversary
12. Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
13. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
14. Zyklon - Disintegrate
15. Mercenary - The Hours That Remain/ I - Between Two Worlds (can't decide which I should kick out of the Top 15)

There have been other good CD's both those were the best for me.

Off the top of my head, might be missing something...

1. DTB - Synchestra (seems so long ago)
2. Tool - 10000 Days (initially disappointing, still awesome)
3. Beatles - Love (Brilliant.)
4. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (no brainer)
5. The Roots - Game Theory (so hip hop can be enjoyable after all...)
6. The Mars Volta - Amputechture (nowhere near as good as it should've been)
7. The Bronx - The Bronx II (rock and fucking roll or what?)
8. Thrice - Vheissu (pretty good for a band I thought played ----core type music)
9. Incubus - Light Grenades (seems kinda average but I cant stop listening to it...)

Something For Kate, Thom Yorke, Gotye, Muse fight it out for 10th place I guess...

[djskrimp]

You guys and your posts that make me stay on the computer way too late, contemplating....hmmm

SYL "The New Black"
DTB "Synchestra"
Sikth "Death of a Dead Day"
Textures "Drawing Circles"
deftones "Saturday Night Wrist"
David Gilmour "On An Island"
Katatonia "The Great Cold Distance"
Raunchy "Death Pop Romance"
Arcane Order "The Machinery of Oblivion"
Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
The Haunted "The Dead Eye"
My Chemical Romance "The Black Parade"

Gonna make one change:

Replace The Arcane Order with "The Hummer" and replace the deftones with Incubus "Light Grenades".

SYL "The New Black"
DTB "Synchestra"
Sikth "Death of a Dead Day"
Textures "Drawing Circles"
Incubus "Light Grenades"
David Gilmour "On An Island"
Katatonia "The Great Cold Distance"
Raunchy "Death Pop Romance"
Devin "mufu'n" Townsend "The Hummer"
Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
The Haunted "The Dead Eye"
My Chemical Romance "The Black Parade"