I am catching up on the world of Metal from 2005. Pick 6-10 releases from this last year that I have to go out and pick up..
Thank you in advance... (of course I could just go and look at your top 10 I guess....)!

Here's my 2005 top 20 list.

I've really gotten into Green Carnation's The Quiet Offspring over the past month. Good, melodic progressive metal. Ulver's Blood Inside is another interesting one that I sort of missed last year.

Man this is good shit. Very Sabbath-y. Why have I not heard this band until now?

Ur trek back to metal may end up leading me back to my space rock days... (Hawkwind... Aprhodites' Child..) nah just kidding! Neverthless Hawkwind abides...!

Downloaded this the other day


Pentagram - First Daze Here: The Vintage Collection

Man this is good shit. Very Sabbath-y. Why have I not heard this band until now?

Yeah, that's a great collection. I wish they had more recordings available.

Before the name was even coined, legendary D.C. outfit Pentagram was helping to invent the beast called heavy metal. For over thirty years the band has remained true to its macabre art. This unwavering dedication has influenced scores of renowned musicians some three decades on, and the legacy grows stronger every year. First Daze Here Too is a 2-disc set containing rare and unreleased studio recordings and live rehearsals from the early 70's. A deluxe 28-page booklet includes lyrics, detailed historical liner notes by drummer Geof O'Keefe and never-before-seen photography! First Daze Here Too is 22 tracks of vintage Pentagram classics from the vaults of the influential and critically-acclaimed D.C. legends!!!

Yeah, that's a great collection. I wish they had more recordings available.

Has anyone found a leak of the Sword disc yet?

Three new Prong songs:

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Charlette the Harlot and 22 Acacia ave

Attention NeurIsis fans...

I finally took Ghost Reveries out of my car rotation for the first time since it was released (a month before, actually, when I got the leak)....and replaced it with Deliverance. The new album has helped me to appreciate the older stuff even more, which I liked but was not in love with before GR.

Has anyone found a leak of the Sword disc yet?

You mean the band from Canada?

I have way too many new titles to mention, so to just keep things simple for the time being, I stumbled across the original seven minute video for "Stars", the 1985 charity single by Hear N Aid...complete with the awesome, wankerific extended solo. I hadn't seen it in 16 or 17 years...great fun. Good song, too:



Hear N Aid - "Stars" (video)

YouTube is loaded with tons of metal goodies...

I actually still own this album. Somewhere in a box in my mom's basement.

Yeah, I still have the 21 year-old casette recording of my friend's copy. Good stuff.

dio was the shit back then. a heavy metal bono (or geldoff).

any metal church fans here? i always felt they should've gotten a little more love.

any metal church fans here? i always felt they should've gotten a little more love.

The music scene in and around Gray’s Harbor consisted of teenage cover bands playing grange hall beer blasts and not much else. I remember once back then, I saw some bands performing in a local park, they were all playing covers of the song "Cocaine". Even at my young uninformed age I would have to have been blasted out of my mind ON Cocaine to think those bands were anything other than total crap. After miraculously graduating from high school I briefly attended Gray’s Harbor Community College in nearby Aberdeen - A major waste of time. It was there that I met an interesting blonde rocker character named Kurdt Vanderhoof. He was originally from Gray’s Harbor and had recently moved back to the north after spendng some time living in San Francisco. He was a little vague about the whole thing but I eventually figured out he had played in the Seattle punk band The Lewd. I had always really liked that stuff and was perplexed to find that he had nothing but bad things to say about them and about punk rock in general. He informed me that he had moved on to "Heavy Metal". He had a band called "Metal Church" - tight leather pants and all. Well, I was a bit confused because at that point Metal Church consisted of five guys in their mid twenties playing Iron Maiden and Scorpions covers to a handful of local high school rubes. Hmm… I remember thinking to myself - let me get this straight, he went from being in a good band from Seattle that relocated to San Francisco, to returning back to Gray’s Harbor to start up a "heavy metal" cover band. Something seemed fishy about his story but he was not eager to answer a lot of questions. Still, he was infinity more interesting than the rest of the bozos going to that school so I continued to talk to him whenever I got the chance. He had a fairly decent knowledge of punk rock which was rare in those parts and I was bored out of my mind. As it all turned out he ended up being one of the most obnoxious jackasses I’ve ever had the misfortune to bump into. Here’s the best part, I had no idea he was a HOMO! It really cracks me up now, and it also shows just what a half-wit he must have been to move from the gay rights capitol of the world back to a county where homosexuality was practically illegal, and it shows just how oblivious I was to what was going on out there in the real world. I learned later that his return to the Northwest centered around him hooking up with one of his former high school teachers. Well, there you have it. How brilliant! Some years later, that very same teacher was shit-canned for giving alcohol to minors. There you have it again. What really threw me was when Metal Church started to become a "big wheel" band around town. At one point I somehow talked Kurdt into letting us open a show for them in Aberdeen. We had done a few shows in Olympia and Seattle so we weren’t exactly new to playing live and I thought it might be fun, instead, they sasheyed around like prima donna rock stars playing some massive stadium, not a dumpy rat infested abandoned movie theater in a one horse town. It was nauseating. The whole adventure was an enormous fiasco. This erstwhile musical mentor and so called friend revealed himself as the false and dull eyed fool he really was. You live and learn. Meanwhile, years later the Melvins have a career in music and my old friend Kurdt works as a waiter at a Gray’s Harbor Golf course and still talks shit about us.

any metal church fans here? i always felt they should've gotten a little more love.

You mean the band from Canada?

I got it.

Anyone got any Saxon downloads? Itunes has only the live album and I need Power & the Glory, Innocence is no Excuse etc etc

power & the glory has the best music video ever.

Saw them in 1986. Great band...I liked The Dark, loved Blessing in Disguise, and have come to appreciate the first album more in recent years.

Sad about David Wayne passing away last year.

One of the better metal shows I've ever seen was Metal Church opening for Metallica at the Seattle Center Arena in December of 1986. Fistfights, M-80's and plentiful Raineer beer. It just doesn't get much better than that...

One of the better metal shows I've ever seen was Metal Church opening for Metallica at the Seattle Center Arena in December of 1986. Fistfights, M-80's and plentiful Raineer beer. It just doesn't get much better than that...

One of the better metal shows I've ever seen was Metal Church opening for Metallica at the Seattle Center Arena in December of 1986. Fistfights, M-80's and plentiful Raineer beer. It just doesn't get much better than that...

i saw metallica on the load tour when the dude got caught on fire as part of the show. :|