1. 10000 Days - Tool
1. Synchestra - Devin Townsend Band
3. Silver - Jesu (an EP but it rules)
4. In The Absence of Truth - ISIS
5. Samsara - Yakuza
6. Rio Grande Blood - Ministry
7. The New Black - Strapping Young Lad
8. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
9. Dante XII - Sepultura
10. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

Hounourable Mentions:
Hossanas From The Basement Of Hell - Killing Joke
Monothiest - Celtic Frost

it wasnt possible to separate Synchestra and 10000 Days. i love em both a fuckload

[JuZ]

My Chemical Romance "The Black Parade"

actually i'd have to agree, really surprisingly good

Really? I was wondering about these guys, as I usually detest this sort of stuff, but I heard the single and loved the big Queen-type opening, if not the rest of the song. Might have to sample an mp3 or two to see if there's an emo-style band other than Coheed and Cambria that doesn't make me want to vomit violently.

(My own 2006 list to follow when I get a chance to think about it)

Rio Grande Blood - Ministry

i forgot about that one!definetely an awesome cd

My Chemical Romance "The Black Parade"

actually i'd have to agree, really surprisingly good

Really? I was wondering about these guys, as I usually detest this sort of stuff, but I heard the single and loved the big Queen-type opening, if not the rest of the song. Might have to sample an mp3 or two to see if there's an emo-style band other than Coheed and Cambria that doesn't make me want to vomit violently.

(My own 2006 list to follow when I get a chance to think about it)

oh and i suggest people check out Samsara by Yakuza

this list is freakin sweet.. i love good new music.

i would also add...

Sparks-Hello Young Lovers - these guys are super-de-duper. why isnt all pop music like this?! WHYYYY??!?

y'see i hate emo especially MCRs first album, but i love coheed and cambria and the new MCR album so .... meh

[djskrimp]

I canNOT believe I'd forgotten this one:

Eric Gales "Crystal Vision"

Thank you, kyl88, for reminding me.

Oh, and the flack about MCR...listen to the album WITHOUT prejudging it as emo. There are strains of Pink Floyd, Queen, and some good ol' 80's in there, and it's done well. Plus, kevetch all you want, Gerard Way has one hell of a voice.

Did I mention tasty solos? Good vocal harmonies? Hmm?

Oh yeah, and Eric Gales slays on the guitar

enslaved - ruun
the gathering - home

In no particular order:

Tom Waits - Orphans (out the 22nd of November!!!)
Tool - 10.000 Days
DTB - Synchestra
Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
Mikael Simpson - Stille & Uroligt
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
The Arcane Order - The Machinery Of Oblivion
Hatebreed - Supremacy
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom


Honorable mentions:
SYL - The New Black (I know I'm supposed to be crazy about this album, but apparently I'm not...!)
The Haunted - The Dead Eye
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain

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

BOY was that ever tough. I didn't even get to include Bob Dylan's newest and that one was fantastic. Same goes for Ministry, SYL, and a handful of other bands.

10. Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse

Oh my, how did I forget that?!

other worthy releases that havent really grabbed my attention as much as the others:

Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Melvins - A Senile Animal
David Gilmour - On an Island
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Sunn 0)))/Boris - Altar
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Isis - In the Absence of Truth

oh and i suggest people check out Samsara by Yakuza

Yeah that's a great album.

There's a surprising number of good proggy-emo bands... Protest the Hero, Circa Survive, Receiving End of Sirens, Thrice... probably a bunch I haven't discovered yet

Also I appear to have forgotten Estradasphere's album from my list. And I just heard Danny Elfman's non-soundtrack album and it's great too.

[EphelDuath666]

there's still one month to go but I can always edit it, so.....


01. DTB - Synchestra/Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton (can't decide)
02. SYL - TNB
03. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
04. Tool - 10,000 Days
05. Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
06. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
07. Ihsahn - The Adversary
08. Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
09. Zyklon - Disintegrate
10. I - Between Two Worlds
11. Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
12. Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI
13. Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation
14. Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
15. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations

some CD's that should also be mentioned:
In Flames - Come Clarity, Stone Sour- Come What(ever) May, Textures - Drawing Circles, Yyrkoon - Unhealthy Opera, Moonspell - Memorial, Scar Symmetry - Pitchblack Progress, Amorphis - Eclipse

1.Amorphis - Eclipse

Just when I thought this band was dead and that Koskinen had lost his voice...
New singer and the best album from Amorphis ever. Simple, honest and awesome music made for the sake of music.

2.Tool - 10,000 days

Never liked Tool before this one. Took it's time but this one really grows on each listen.