Top Ten Lists - 2005

1. The Provenance How Would You Like To Be Spat At
2. Frantic Bleep The Sense Apparatus
3. Primordial The Gathering Wilderness
4. Opeth Ghost Reveries
5. Tristania Ashes
6. Cemetary Phantasma
7. Moonsorrow Verisäkeet
8. Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy Relic Dances
9. Mahavatar Go With The No!
10. Carnival In Coal Collection Prestige

1. Opeth Ghost Reveries
2. Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
3. Judas Priest Angel Of Retribution
4. Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine
5. Kreator Enemy Of God
6. Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
7. Dark Tranquillity Character
8. Children Of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
9. Bruce Dickinson Tyranny Of Souls
10. Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked

11. System Of A Down Mezmerize
12. Dream Theater Live At Budokan
13. Candlemass Candlemass
14. Slipknot 9.0 Live
15. Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy
16. Annihilator Schizo Deluxe
17. Iron Maiden Death On The Road
18. Demons & Wizards Touched By The Crimson King
19. Hypocrisy Virus
20. Kamelot The Black Halo
21. Overkill RelixIV
22. Soilwork Stabbing The Drama
23. Trivium Ascendancy
24. Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal
25. Obituary Frozen In Time
26. Black Label Society Mafia
27. Rammstein Rosenrot
28. Cryptopsy One Was Not
29. Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies

Comparatively speaking, this list is about the same quality-wise as last year's, but a step below 2003 and several steps below 2001, still by far the best year of the new millennium.

Opeth does it again -- they are practically unstoppable at this stage of their career. The BNR prediction for top album, Judas Priest's Angel Of Retribution, does make a solid showing. Note: due to an unfortunate error in the early version of the voting page, both of System Of A Down's albums were counted as one. Thus, the position of Mezmerize is not accurate with respect to the other albums. In time, this may be corrected. Still, an interesting year for metal.