Top Ten Lists - 2004

1. Project: Failing Flesh A Beautiful Sickness
2. Ministry Houses Of The Molé
3. Thee Maldoror Kollective A Clockwork Highway
4. Red Harvest Internal Punishment Programs
5. Probot Probot
6. The Amenta Occasus
7. Enslaved Isa
8. Exodus Tempo Of The Damned
9. Isis Panopticon
10. Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm

1. Megadeth The System Has Failed
2. Exodus Tempo Of The Damned
3. Iced Earth The Glorious Burden
4. Nightwish Once
5. Cradle Of Filth Nymphetamine
6. Lamb Of God Ashes Of The Wake
7. Mastodon Leviathan
8. Slipknot Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
9. In Flames Soundtrack To Your Escape
10. Anthrax Music Of Mass Destruction

11. Shadows Fall The War Within
12. Fear Factory Archetype
13. The Haunted rEVOLVEr
14. Death Angel The Art Of Dying
15. Behemoth Demigod
16. Rammstein Reise, Reise
17. My Dying Bride Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
18. Killswitch Engage The End Of Heartache
19. Motorhead Inferno
20. Probot Probot
21. Amon Amarth Fate Of Norns
22. Orphaned Land Mabool
23. Damageplan New Found Power
24. Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn
25. Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh
26. Finntroll Nattfodd
27. Therion Sirius B / Lemuria
28. Ministry Houses Of The Molé
29. Deicide Scars Of The Crucifix
30. Borknagar Epic

A decent year, with the first three albums basically tied for best of the year. Nice comeback for Exodus and Ministry.

Is this Megadeth's last hurrah? If so, Dave's going out on top. Not a lot of surprises in the top ten (except perhaps Mastodon), though there are some interesting groups in the 11-30 range. If only #1 votes were counted, Orphaned Land would be in the Top Ten, meaning perhaps that those few who have heard the album really like it.