Well, I sat down and really thought about it, and came up with a semi-complete Top 10 list, in rough order:

My top 10 (loosely in order, and also subject to change):

-Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing"
-dredg's "Catch Without Arms"
-Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"
-Nine Inch Nails' "With Teeth"
-Strapping Young Lad's "Alien"
-Sigur Ros' "Takk..."
-The Pineapple Thief's "10 Stories Down"
-Pelican's "The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw"
-The Wallflowers' "Rebel, Sweetheart"
-The Mars Volta's "Frances The Mute"

And honorable mention goes to:
-Sir Milard Mulch's "How To Sell The Whole F#@!Ing Universe To Everybody... Once And For All!"

Should be noted that I got Devlab's (Devin Townsend's) "Devlab" and Roger Waters' "Ca Ira" earlier this week, so the jury is still out on those.

Alright, now post yours...let's see what I've missed this year.

Hmmm I could try this..... some might not be 2005 but i think they all are... no particular order...

Meshuggah - Catch 33
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Cog - The New Normal
Karnivool - Themata
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
System of a Down - Mesmerize/Hypnotize

I can't really think of any others I've liked as much as those one's there. Dredg, Nine Inch Nails, Chimaira, Sigur Ros, Eleventh He Reaches London all get honourable mentions.

My top ten reads as follows:

1. Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
2. SYL - "Alien"
3. Nevermore - "This Godless Endeavor"
4. Burst - "Origo"
5. Hypocrisy - "Virus"
6. Pelican - "The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw"
7. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - "Worlds Apart"
8. Napalm Death - "The Code Is Red... Long Live the Code"
9. The Mars Volta - "Frances the Mute"
10. Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"

Yes, I am a list-geek!

[djskrimp]

Not in order, because I am still trying to figure it out...

SYL "Alien"
Riverside "Second Life Syndrome"
Gojira "From Mars to Sirius"
Nevermore "This Godless Endeavor"
Opeth "Ghost Reveries"
Meshuggah "Catch 33"
RA "Duality"
Dark New Day "12 Year Silence"
Scar Symmetry "Symmetric in Design"
King's X "Ogre Tones"

2005 has been a very good year...

In no particular order:

SYL - "Alien"
NHL - "Non Human Level"
Soilwork - "Stabbing The Drama"
Chimaira - "Chimaira"
Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
Evenlight - "Fuck Yeah"
Lalu - "Oniric Metal"
Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"
Gojira - "From Mars To Sirius"
Nile - "Annihilation Of The Wicked"
Hate Eternal - "I, Monarch"

Ok... I wrote 11 albums, but... Who cares?

SYL - Alien
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Tori Amos - The Beekeeper (this one surprised me.. her last couple sucked)
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Jesu - Jesu
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Old Man's Child - Vermin
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama

Not overly fond of the last three... But I couldn't think of anything else (Octavarium should probably be up there... I haven't heard it yet, though)

Top 3 (alphabetical)
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary to Know
SYL - Alien
Ulver - Blood Inside

Others (alphabetical again)

Between the Buried and me - Alaska
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus
Linear Sphere - Reality Dysfunction
Mats/Morgan Band - thanks for Flying With us
Non-Human Level - NHL
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Symbyosis - On the Wings of Phoenix

ok...so that's 11...never mind

[EphelDuath666]

for me it would looke like this...sorta:

SYL - Alien
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Sigur Rós - Takk
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken...
Hypocrisy - Virus
Non-Human Level - NHL
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary To Know
SOAD - Mezmerize/Hypnotize

but there's more. I hate Top 10's
I would also like to mention Riverside's Second Life Syndrome Biomechanical's The Empires Of The Worlds, Mistress's - In Disgust We Trust, Gorefest's La Muerte, Darkane's Layers Of Lies, Evenlight's Fuck Yeah, Lalu's Oniric Metal, Tori's Beekeeper, Dredg's Catch Without Arms, Betzefer's Down Low, Scar Symmetry's Symmetric In Design, Hidden In The Fog's Damokles, Kino's Picture, NIN's With Teeth and last but not least Mesh's Catch 33 which I appreciate a lot more now than in the beginning.
This year has been better than I thought

10. Terror 2000 - Terror for Sale
09. Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
08. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
07. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
06. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
05. Noise Unit - Voyeur
04. Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
03. Sentenced - The Funeral Album
02. Rotten Sound - Exit
01. Ulver - Blood Inside

Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils
The Residents - Animal Lover
Dead Meadow - Feathers
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners
Jello Biafra w/ the Melvins - Sieg Howdy!
ASVA - Futurists Against the Ocean
Pelican - The Fire in our Throats will Beckon the Thaw
Guapo - Black Oni

Final day of the year, so here goes:

1. Sigur Rós - Takk
2. SYL - Alien
3. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
4. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
6. Darkane - Layers Of Lies
7. Lalu - Oniric Metal
8. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
9. Evenlight - Fuck Yeah!
10. Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds

Honourables:
Mastodon - Leviathan (only got into it this year)
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (just getting into this lately)
NHL - Non-Human Level (it'd be up there if I'd "officially" heard it)

wow no one said "Enter The Chicken" - Buckethead and Friends (Serj Tankien being one of those "friends").

Unreal fucking album.

Also Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary To Know
SYL - Alien
Queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
Evenlight - Fuck Yeah
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
C2B3 - The Great Eyeball In The Sky
Mars Volta - Frances the Mut
Fantomas - Suspended Animation
DEVLAB!!

06. Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies

bo****ks, there's one I forgot one

My top ten reads as follows:

1. Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"
2. SYL - "Alien"
3. Nevermore - "This Godless Endeavor"
4. Burst - "Origo"
5. Hypocrisy - "Virus"
6. Pelican - "The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw"
7. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - "Worlds Apart"
8. Napalm Death - "The Code Is Red... Long Live the Code"
9. The Mars Volta - "Frances the Mute"
10. Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"

Yes, I am a list-geek!

this is pretty much what i'd put, except sigur ros would be on there...

for anyone who put meshuggah's new album i feel sorry for you, this year wasn't THAT BAD was it!? that is a very boring album, sorry just my thoughts.

1.Subteranean Masquarade - Suspended Animation Dreams
2.Oceansize - evryone into position
3. Arcturus - sideshow symphonies
4.Sigur ros - Takk
5.Strapping Young Lad - Alien
6.Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
7.Nevermore - This godless Endevour
8.Opeth - Ghosr Reveries
9.Ulver - Blood Inside
10. Akercocke - Words that go unsaid, Deeds that go undone