Granted there is still 2.5 months left to go in the year, about anohter 100 or so CD's to cross my path, when you work in the magazine publishing industry, you are given deadlines which don't allow the writer to give a truly full years perspective.

Disclaimer #1 - Working for metal magazines, when compiling my list, I was in that frame of mind. Come the end of the year, when we do our lists, some of the non rock/metal releases may place higher, and some of the rock may drop off alltogether.

Disclaimer #2 - Knowing my inability to make decisions and my overall hatred of lists, I reserve the right to edit this list hourly if need be, as my mood changes.

So with that, I give you my Favorite Releases of 2005 up to an including October 17, 2005.

TOP 20
1. Black Mountain – Black Mountain
2. Our Lady Peace – Healthy in Paranoid Times
3. Open Hand – You & Me
4. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
5. Greg Dulli – Amber Headlights
6. 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie
7. Vendetta Red – Sisters of the Red Death
8. Grand Magus – Wolf’s Return
9. Blindside – The Great Depression
10. White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
11. Cave In – Perfect Pitch Black
12. Apes Pigs & Spacemen – Free Pawn
13. Dead Meadow - Feathers
14. From Autumn to Ashes – Abandon Your Friends
15. Gospel – The Moon is a Dead World
16. Beautiful Creatures – Deuce
14. Wednesday 13 – Transylvania 90210
18. Antimatter – Planetary Confinements
19. Warlocks – Surgery
20. Bear vs. Shark – Terrorhawk

OTHER FAVORITES
13 & God – 13 & God
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl
Blanche – If We Can’t Trust the Doctors
Blood Meridian – We Almost Made It Home
Boys Night Out – Trainwreck
Bruce Dickinson – Tyranny of Souls
Dangerdoom – The Mouse and the Mask
Deadman – Our Eternal Ghosts
Extol – Blue Print Dives
Forecast – Late Night Conversations
Goat Horn – Storming the Gates
Gods – I See You Through Glass
Hopewell - …And the Birds of Appetite
Lowlights - Lowlights
Nevermore – The Godless Endeavor
Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
No Warning – Suffer, Survive
Seether – Karma and Effect
Soilwork – Stabbing the Drama
The Dresden Dolls – The Dresden Dolls
The Flesh – The Flesh
Torche – Torche
Weerd Science – Friends & Nervous Breakdowns
Witchcraft – Firewood

Black Mountain, Greg Dulli, Our Lady Peace? You are soooo predictable...

How's that Warlocks album. I'm intrigued.

good to see some love for the mighty Grand Magus. Opeth's latest is in my Top Ten as well.

Hey...I stick by my favorites....till they disapoint me...and they havent as of yet...


Warlocks is real good. This CD was my first exposure to the band, so I'm still absorbing some of the older stuff as well.....I think 'Phoenix' is my favorite so far, however, Surgery is very solid and I recommend.

That Dresden Dolls album was so last year. It still rocks, though.