1. Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus

2. Slough Feg – Atavism

3. Nevermore – This Godless Endeavour

4. Grand Magus – Wolf’s return

5. Spiritual Beggars – Demons

6. Ohm – Amino Acid Flashback

7. Locomotive Breath – Change of track

8. Corrosion of Conformity – In the arms of god

9. Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls

10. Cathedral – The garden of unearthly delights

11. Kaamos – Lucifer Rising

12. Opeth – Ghost Reveries

13. Bible of the devil – Brutality, majesty, eternity

14. King’s X – Ogre Tones

15. Exodus – Shovel headed kill machine

16. Soul SirkUS – World Play

17. Crowbar – Lifesblood for the downtrodden

18. Sheavy – Republic?

19. Candlemass – Candlemass

20. Porcupine Tree – Deadwing

5 Albums that  exceeded my expectations in 2005: Of course this doesn’t include some of them in the list above that exceeded my expectations too.

Nile – Annihilation of the wicked
Obituary – Frozen in time
Napalm Death – Code is red…long live the code
Hate Eternal – I, Monarch
Yngwie Malmsteen – Unleashing the fury


5 albums that  didn’t meet my high expectations in 2005: Same rule as the above.

John Norum - Optimus
Arch Enemy – Doomsday machine
Iommi – Fused
Paul Gilbert – Spaceship one
Soilent Green – Confrontation