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Top 111 Albums of 2005


1.	Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2.	Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
3.	Aeon 
4. 	Origin
5.	Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
6. 	Enthroned
7.	Devil Driver
8.	Horna
9. 	Behemoth
10. 	Dragonlord
11.	Black Label Society
12. 	Ram-Zet
13. 	Bloodbath
14.	Dream Theater
15.	All Shall Perish
16.	Metal Mike's Painmuseum
17. 	Leng.Tche
18.	Demons & Wizards
19.	Hate Eternal
20.	Clutch
21.	Nevermore
22.	1349
23.	Tristania
24.	Quo Vadis
25.	Bolt Thrower
26. 	Naglfar
27.	Beheaded
28.	Cephalic Carnage
29. 	Children of Bodom
30.	Corrosion Of Conformity
31.	Old Man's Child
32.	Aborted
33.	Green Carnation
34.	The Black Dahlia Murder
35.	Natterfrost
36.	Swallow The Sun
37.	Deeds of Flesh
38.	Gorerotted
39.	Steve Vai
40.	Hypocrisy
41.	Mortal Decay
42.	Various Artists - Roadrunner United
43.	Despised Icon
44.	Arch Enemy
45.	Chimaira
46.	Oathean
47.	Paths Of Possession
48.	Putrid Pile
49.	Krisiun
50.	Obituary
51.	Judas Priest
52.	Marduk
53.	Soulfly
54.	Winter Of Apocalypse
55.	Nashville Pussy
56.	Enslaved
57.	Crionics
58.	Trivium
59.	White Knuckle Trip
60.	Dew Scented
61.	Dark Tranquility
62.	God Forbid
63.	Kreator
64.	Immolation
65.	Ritual Carnage
66.	John 5
67.	Lord Belial
68.	Strapping Young Lad
69.	Belphegor
70.	Subterranean Masquerade
71.	Exodus
72.	Sargiest
73.	Jizzy Pearl
74.	Between The Buried And Me
75.	Mercenary
76.	Bongzilla
77.	Darkthrone
78.	Prostitute Disfugurement
79.	Morgul
80.	Mark Rizzo
81.	Crematorium
82.	Soilwork
83.	Draconian
84.	Wednesday 13
85.	Disgorge
86.	Symphorce
87.	Candlemass
88.	Neara
89.	Wet Animal
90.	Municipal Waste
91.	God Dethroned
92.	Kamelot
93.	Vesania
94.	The Banner
95.	November's Doom
96.	Neuraxis
97.	Annihilator
98.	System Of A Down
99.	Incantation
100.	Cannae
101.	High On Fire
102.	Morgion
103.	Jag Panzer
104.	Stream Of Passion
105.	Fall From Eden
106.	Messhugah
107.	Into The Moat
108. 	Yngwie Malsteen's Rising Force
109.	Madball
110.	Pillory
111.	YYRKOON