What’s The Best Album Of 2005?

Aborted – The Archaic Abattoir

Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken

Arch Enemy – Doomsday Machine

As I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security

August Burns Red – Thrill Seeker

Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil

Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal

Boris – Pink

Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls

Bullet For My Valentine – The Poison

Candlemass – Candlemass

Cephalic Carnage – Anomalies

Children of Bodom – Are You Dead Yet?

Chimaira – Chimaira

Chiodos – All’s Well That Ends Well

Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus

Cryptopsy – Once Was Not

Dark Tranquility – Character

Demon Hunter – The Triptych

Despised Icon – The Healing Process

Destruction – Inventor of Evil

DevilDriver – The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand

Devourment – Butcher the Weak

Disturbed – Ten Thousand Fists

Dope – American Apathy

Dream Theater – Octavarium

Epica – Consign To Oblivion

Every Time I Die – Gutter Phenomenon

Exodus – Shovel Headed Kill Machine

Fear Factory – Transgression

Fireball Ministry – Their Rock Is Not Our Rock

From Autumn To Ashes – Abandon Your Friends

God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason

Gojira – From Mars to Sirius

Hate Eternal – I, Monarch

High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings

Ion Dissonance – Solace

Immolation – Harnessing Ruin

Job For A Cowboy – Doom

Judas Priest – Angel of Retribution

Kamelot – The Black Halo

Korn – See You on the Other Side

Kreator – Enemy of God

Kylesa – To Walk a Middle Course

Life of Agony – Broken Valley

Lordi – The Monster Show

Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree

Mournful Congregation – The Monad of Creation

Mudvayne – Lost And Found

Napalm Death – The Code Is Red… Long Live The Code

Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor

Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked

Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth

Obituary – Frozen In Time

Opeth – Ghost Reveries

Origin – Echoes Of Decimen

Parkway Drive – Killing With A Smile

Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness

Protest The Hero – Kezia

Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze

Rammstein – Rosenrot

Scar Symmetry – Symmetric In Design

Sentenced – The Funeral Album

Sevendust – Next

Soilwork – Stabbing the Drama

Soulfly – Dark Ages

Static-X – Start A War

Stick To Your Guns – For What It’s Worth

Strapping Young Lad – Alien

Sunn O))) – Black One

System of a Down – Mezmerize & Hypnotize

The Black Dahlia Murder – Miasma

The Red Chord – Clients

Throwdown – Vendetta

Trivium – Ascendancy

Winds of Plague – A Cold Day In Hell

Yngwie Malmsteen – Unleash the Fury