Back to serious issues: Who Will Win Kerrang's Best Albums Of 2005

Foo Fighters 1st 3 albums all won Kerrang Album Of Year so my guess is they might do so again.
SOAD perhaps.
NIN.

Are there any other front runners this year?

Terrorizers albums of year will probably be more interesting than Kerrang & Metal Hammer.

If Kerrang is out tomorrow i'll post the list if no one else has.

xpost yeah mastodon won it. But that was no surprise really. Thats what makes me hope High On Fire win it(same label, same level as Mastodon were last year perhaps)
Only surprise was Isis didn't do better.

1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Green Day - American Idiot
3. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
4. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
5. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
6. Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
7. Lostprophets - Start Something
8. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
9. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
10. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
11. Isis - Panopticon
12. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
13. The Bronx - The Bronx
14. The Bled - Pass The Flask
15. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
16. Rammstein - Reise, Reise
17. Atreyu - The Curse
18. Head Automatica - Decadence
19. Ash - Meltdown
20. The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives

What else has a chance? Alkaline Trio? Bullet for my Valentine?

The SOAD vote could be split between both albums though. Unless they combine both albums votes and give them album of year.

Maybe they will shock us this year.

PopMatters | Columns | Adrien Begrand | Blood and Thunder | The Best Metal Albums of 2005
http://www.popmatters.com/columns/begrand/051219.shtml

The Year In Metal, 2005 - The 25 Best Albums of 2005
http://raisethyhorns.blogspot.com/2005/12/year-in-metal-2005.html
from a blogger

UNRESTRAINED! reveals picks for top albums of 2005
http://whiplashtv.com/WordPress/?p=209
Canada’s UNRESTRAINED! magazine has named Opeth’s ‘Ghost Reveries’ as the #1 Album of 2005

Top Metal/Hardcore Albums Of 2005 As Voted By Writers Of Sweden's CLOSE-UP Magazine
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=45218

Lords of Metal - Top 30
http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showspecial.php?id=105

also:

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2005

End of year writers list for US based Metal music magazine decibel.

1 pelican - the fire in our throats will beckon the thaw
2 opeth - ghost reveries
3 the red chord - clients
4 withered - memento mori
5 meshuggah - catch 33
6 trivium - ascendancy
7 torche - torche
8 darkest hour - undoing ruin
9 jesu - jesu
10 napalm death - the code is red...long live the code
11 enslaved - isa
12 neuraxis - trilateral progression
13 a life once lost - hunter
14 god forbid - IV: constitution of treason
15 gospel - the moon is a dead world
16 ulver - blood inside
17 xasthur - to violate the oblivious
18 transistor transistor - erase all name and likeness
19 between the buried and me - alaska
20 every time i die - gutter phenomenon
21 strapping young lad - alien
22 kylesa - to walk a middle course
23 nile - annihilation of the wicked
24 nevermore - this godless endeavor
25 the mars volta - frances the mute
26 horse the band - the mechanical hand
27 mouth of the architect - time and withering
28 confessor - unraveled
29 queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
30 witchcraft - firewood
31 high on fire - blessed black wings
32 hate eternal - i, monarch
33 cipher - children of god's fire
34 arsis - a diamond for disease
35 twilight - twilight
36 buried inside - chronoclast
37 earth - hex: or printing in the infernal method
38 deathspell omega - kenose
39 chimaira - chimaira
40 most precious blood - merciless

Some great stuff on the decibel list. I'd actually buy that if it came out here.
Only mag i import now is Skyscraper. Shipping costs are always double the cost of magazines.

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
2. Nevermore – The Godless Endeavour (Century Media)
3. Primordial – The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)
4. Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT)
5. Lurker Of Chalice – Lurker Of Chalice (Southern Lord/Total Holocaust)
6. Deathspell Omega – Kenose (N.E.D./Ajna Offensive)
7. Corrosion Of Conformity – In The Arms Of God (Sanctuary)
8. Hypocrisy – Virus (Nuclear Blast)
9. Strapping Young Lad – Alien (Century Media)
10. Between The Buried And Me – Alaska (Victory)
11. Dark Tranquillity – Character (Century Media)
12. Ulver – The Blood Inside (The End)
13. Napalm Death – The Code Is Red… Long Live The Code (Century Media)
14. Rammstein – Rosenrot (Universal)
15. Torche – Torche (Robotic Empire)
16. Green Carnation – The Quiet Offspring (The End Records)
17. Leaves’ Eyes – Vinland Saga (Napalm)
18. Jesu – Jesu (Hydra Head)
19. Slough Feg – Atavism (Cruz Del Sur)
20. Red Knife Lottery – So Much Drama (Uprising)

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After Forever - Remagine
Alarum - Eventuality
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Amoral - Decrowning
Annihilator - Schizo Deluxe
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security
Battlelore - Third Age Of The Sun
Beseech - Sunless Days
Between the Buried And Me - Alaska
Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds
Blood Ritual - Black Grimoire
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny Of Souls
Callenish Circle - Pitch.Black.Effect
Cancer - Spirit In Flames
Candlemass - Candlemass
Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights
Charon - Songs for the Sinners
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Chimaira - Chimaira
Circle Of Dead Children - Zero Comfort Margin
Cliteater - Clit 'Em All
Code - Nouveau Gloaming
Construcdead - The Grand Machinery
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Darkane - Layers Of Lies
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Dark Funeral - Attera Totus Sanctus
Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Deadlock - Earth.Revolt
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat
Desaster - Angelwhore
Destruction - Inventor of Evil
Detonation - Portals To Uphobia
Dew Scented - Issue VI
Draconian (SWE) - Arcane Rain Fell
Dragonlord - Black Wings Of Destiny
Epica - Consign To Oblivion/The Score
Eternal Oath - Wither
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Face Down - The Will To Power
Gehenna - WW
Glass Hammer - Chronometree
Gorefest - La Muerte
Graveworm - (N)Utopia
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
Hatesphere - The Sickness Within
Hearse - The Last Ordeal
Hypocrisy - Virus
Isole - Forevermore
Kiuas - The Spirit Of Ukko
Kreator - Enemy Of God
Kragens - Seeds of Pain
Leaves Eyes - Vinland Saga
Machine Men - Elegies
Mael Mordha - Cluain Tarb
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Moonsorrow - Verisaekeet
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn
Nailed - A Pure World Is A Dead World
Naglfar - Pariah
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Nightingale - Nightfall Overture
Nightmare Visions - NVIII
Nightrage - Descent Into Chaos
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Noumena - Absence
Obituary - Frozen In Time
Old Man's Child - Vermin
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Overmars - Affliction, Endocrine... Vertigo
Pain - Dancing with the Dead
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost
Paths of Possession - Promises in Blood
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Ram-Zet - Intra
Rapture - The Silent Stage
Reverend Bizzare - II: Crush The Insects
Ritual Carnage - Infedal
Rotten Sound - Exit
Runemagick - Envenom
Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
Season's End - The Failing Light
Sentenced - The Funeral Album
Skullbreaker - Total Thrash Terror
Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama
Spiritual Beggars - Demons
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Suidakra - Command To Charge
Swallow the Sun - Ghosts of Loss
Terror 2000 - Terror for Sale
The Duskfall - Lifetime Supply of Guilt
The Firstborn - The Unclenching Of Fists
The Old Dead Tree - The Perpetual Motion
The Vision Bleak - Carpathia
Trail of Tears - Free Fall into Fear
Trauma - Determination
Tristania - Ashes
Trivium - Ascendancy
Usurper - Cryptobeast
Vile - The new Age of Chaos
Vornagar - The Bleeding Holocaust
Wetwork - Synod
Windfall - Infector
Xandria - India

20) Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
19) Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms Of God
18) The White Stripes - Get behind Me Satan
17) Arch Enemy - Doomsday machine
16) ...And You Will Know us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
15) System Of A Down - Hypnotize
14) Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken Deeds That Go Undone
13) Qotsa - Lulabies To Paralyze
12) Opeth - Ghost Reveries
11) The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back
10) Thrice - Vheissu
09) Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
08) Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
07) Bullet For My valentine - The Poison
06) Alkaline Trio - Crimson
05) High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
04) The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
03) System Of A Down - Mesmerize
02) Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

01) Trivium - Ascendancy

Stevie Chick's personal top 10

10)Residual Echoes - Phoenician Flu And Ancient Ocean (great choice stevie!)
09)The Dirtbombs - You Don't Already Have A Look
08)Black Mountain - Black Mountain
07)Wives - Erect The Youth Problem
06)Love As Laughter - Laughters Fifth(great album again stevie)
05) The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
04) Saul Williams - Saul Williams
03) Part Chimp - I Am Come
02) My Morning Jacket - Z
01) The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

I am cheered by how popular Torche appear to be with the US lot - I wrote something about them and have seen no other UK press for them at all. The album is splendid

Theres so many good albums missing.
And yeah, Hari, NIN album deserves to be high up.

The Terrorizer poll should be better I hope.

Trivium has only grown stronger since 2003's Ember to Inferno. That album's mix of classic thrash (early Metallica) with 21st century metalcore rage and progressive metal flourish still roils here. But Ascendancy's fire is more ferocious and its transitions more confident, which means the band is even more dedicated to its clever throwback sound.
T
his is even more impressive when you consider that no one in Trivium is old enough to legally rent a car. The lineup has shifted -- joining vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy and drummer Travis Smith are guitarist Corey Beaulieu and bassist Paolo Gregoletto.

But they're a ridiculously tight quartet, unleashing thrilling dual guitar passages and pummeling kick drum gallops as surely as they do melodic breaks and vicious throat screeds. The verses of "Rain" and "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" blister the brain, while Heafy channels James Hetfield effortlessly in the choruses. "Martyr" is particularly insane, its hurricane solos piled on top of percussion that simply engulfs the rhythm. From a technical standpoint, Trivium is often astounding. It's worth reading along when Heafy's screaming becomes unintelligible. Though his lyrics cover familiar territory -- gloom 'n' doom, emotional pain, revenge -- he gets off great lines like "You ask me 'Oh God why?'/'Cause I'm God, that's f*cking why" and "Disintegration constituents to decompose of the parts." Gregoletto steps up for the intro to "Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation" before it transforms into a metalcore rant, "Deceived" is downright melodic (but still totally heavy), and there's a great extended bank of guitar solos in "Drowned and Torn Asunder"'s midsection.

Ascendancy aligns real-deal thrash with powerful modern influences. But at all times it's a platform for Trivium's own crazed talent.

thank you! really, really overlooked, i reckon. its such a strong album all the way through, and a real grower - my favourite track seemed to switch every time i played it (not exactly true - 'i am a ghost' is my second favourite song of the year, after amerie's '1 thing' - but my second-favourite was different every time...)

I didn't I'm afraid! I'm out shopping tonight, so I'll look for it. '70's Ghost or current Ghost?

And if this...
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg200/g206/g20690n0jlc.jpg
...is the Ghost album you're referring to, my interest is piqued as well. Great album.

Lee Dorrian was banging on years ago about all these late 60s bands that Circulus rip off, back when no-one gave a fuck about any of it. If you bear that in mind it makes a lot more sense.

That's the weakest metal/hard rock top ten I've seen yet this year.

I mean, Opeth are pretty dull in general, but that last album was a whole new level of anal, mid-tempo dullness.

Heh, at Sounds of the Underground, while I was savouring every valuable second of Opeth's glorious 40 minute, six-song set, my brother was wrist-slashingly bored. Guess they're not for everyone.

The more I hear Ghost Reveries, the more I become convinced it's their finest album to date, even better than Still Life and Blackwater Park.

my fave prog album of the year was Ulver's...

Blood Inside has been growing on me in a huge way. I keep wanting to play "Christmas" over and over.

And that Boris album is killer...I was late getting into it (just heard it a couple weeks ago), but it's coming out in North America in 2006, so it'll probably be a lock for my year-end list in twelve months.

Oh c'mon, the results of bowl games have this all beat to shit and back.

http://www.bravewords.com/news/37683

66) DESTRUCTION - Inventor Of Evil (AFM)
65) PATHS OF POSSESSION - Promises In Blood (Metal Blade)
64) FALCONER - Grime Vs. Grandeur (Metal Blade)
63) CRAFT - Fuck The Universe (Southern Lord/Carnal)
62) MOSTLY AUTUMN - Storms Over Still Water (Autumn Records)
61) PRIMORDIAL - The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)
60) YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE - Unleash The Fury (Spitfire)
59) EARTH - Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method (Southern Lord)
58) FOZZY - All That Remains (Koch)
57) LURKER OF CHALICE - Lurker Of Chalice (Southern Lord/Total Holocaust)
56) CAMILLA RHODES - Like The Word Love On The Lips Of A Harlot (Galy)
55) KORPIKLAANI - Voice Of Wilderness (Napalm)
54) MORS PRINCIPIUM EST - The Unborn (Listenable)
53) GRAVE DIGGER - The Last Supper (Nuclear Blast)
52) DEEP PURPLE - Rapture Of The Deep (Spitfire)
51) ICARUS WITCH - Capture The Magic (Magick)
50) CLUTCH - Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT)
49) ABORTED - The Archaic Abattoir (Olympic)
48) APOCALYPTICA - Apocalyptica (Universal)
47) KING?S X - Ogre Tones (InsideOut)
46) IMMOLATION - Harnessing Ruin (Olympic)
45) DARK TRANQUILLITY - Character (Century Media)
44) GREEN CARNATION - The Quiet Offspring (The End)
43) PAGAN?S MIND - Enigmatic Calling (LMP)
42) NEURAXIS - Trilateral Progression (Willowtip)
41) DREAM THEATER - Octavarium (Atlantic)
40) STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Alien (Century Media)
39) ROTTEN SOUND - Exit (Willowtip)
38) OLD MAN'S CHILD - Vermin (Century Media)
37) MASTERPLAN - Aeronautics (AFM)
36) MUNICIPAL WASTE - Hazardous Mutation (Earache)
35) HATE ETERNAL - I, Monarch (Earache)
34) AKERCOCKE - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (Earache)
33) JAMES LABRIE - Elements Of Persuasion (InsideOut)
32) GOD FORBID - IV: Constitution Of Treason (Century Media)
31) WATCH THEM DIE - Bastard Son (Century Media)
30) RUSSELL ALLEN'S ATOMIC SOUL - Atomic Soul (InsideOut)
29) TRIBUZY - Execution (Arise)
28) MERCENARY - 11 Dreams (Century Media)
27) LIGHT THIS CITY - Remains Of The Gods (Prosthetic)
26) ANNIHILATOR ? Schizo Deluxe (Indie)
25) MORGANA LEFAY ? Grand Materia (Black Mark)
24) DESPISED ICON - The Healing Process (Century Media)
23) BEHEMOTH ? Demigod (Century Media)
22) NAPALM DEATH ? The Code Is Red?Long Live The Code (Century Media)
21) FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - Dreams Of Death (Crash)
20) IOMMI - Fused (Sanctuary)
19) HELLOWEEN - Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy (SPV)
18) PRIMAL FEAR - Seven Seals (Nuclear Blast)
17) CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - In The Arms Of God (Sanctuary)
16) RUSSELL ALLEN/JORN LANDE - The Battle (Frontiers)
15) PORCUPINE TREE - Deadwing (Lava)
14) CRYPTOPSY – Once Was Not (Century Media)
13) HYPOCRISY - Virus (Nuclear Blast)
12) SENTENCED – The Funeral Album (Century Media)
11) EXODUS – Shovel Headed Kill Machine (Nuclear Blast)
10) ARCH ENEMY – Doomsday Machine (Century Media)
9) BRUCE DICKINSON - Tyranny Of Souls (Sanctuary)
8) GAMMA RAY – Majestic (Mayan)
7) CHILDREN OF BODOM – Are You Dead Yet? (Spinefarm)
6) BRAINSTORM - Liquid Monster (Metal Blade)
5) KREATOR – Enemy Of God (SPV)
4) OPETH – Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
3) CANDLEMASS – Candlemass (Nuclear Blast)
2) JUDAS PRIEST – Angel Of Retribution (Sony BMG)
1) NEVERMORE – This Godless Endeavor (Century Media)

How 'bout those West Virginia Mountaineers!

Don't do anything to encourage Fozzy. Realistically, it had to have been a grim year when a Bruce Dickinson solo album or a Judas Priest reunion makes a Top Ten.

I'd find these lists more compelling if they weren't so dedicated to
the all the shit you can put in a couple buckets method. When you're not made to winnow things down to any SMALL number and you have relatively HIGH number of releases (like a few a day per year) with a MEDIUM number of contributors, you get ... an undifferentiated pile.

Top tens usually just have the most popular/best selling stuff which means short lists tend to be all the same.

Terrorizer "Normally" comes out on Thursdays every 4 weeks. However the last few months I have managed to pick it up on the Wednesday. Not this time though.

That's simply not true. Anyway, the entire premise of 66 or 100 or more "best" genre and microgenre albums for one year is ridiculous. There's just not that much talent. By the time you hit 30 you're well into mediocre and beyond that dealing with a lot of scrubs and marginally listenable material which, along with a the company issuing the CDs, are really cadged together demos and what not that might as well not have been released except as CD-Rs, maximally.

Now, it's quite normal, even a sign of health and vigor, for a variety of people to like marginal, even really crappy, records at least briefly. But that doesn't mean something that has a majority which constitutes a booger collection deserves to be enshrined in a year-end list.

For me, a more interesting approach would be to take a small number of writers/journalists and ask them to restrict themselves to choosing the two or three CDs that stayed with them after arrival to the end of the year. And those should also be ones that have a chance of persisting as enjoyable listens once the calender turns over. Then write a paragraph or two what the two or three meant to them. And above all, keep it short and resist the standard practice of boring the tits off everyone by rehashing and rehashing and rehashing the year that was.

40 Taint - The Ruin Of Nova Roma
39 Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
38 Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
37 Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
36 System Of A Down - Mesmerize/Hypnotize
35 Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will beckon The Thaw
34 The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
33 Clutch - Robot Hive
32 Napalm Death - The Code Is Red, Long Live The Code
31 Strapping Young Lad - Alien
30 Ulver - Blood Inside
29 Unsane - Blood Run
28 Capricorns - Ruder Forms Survive
27 Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
26 God Forbid - IV: Constitution Of Treason
25 Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
24 Reverend Bizarre - II : Crush The Insects
23 < code > - Nouveau Gloaming
22 1349 - Hellfire
21 Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
20 Sunno))) - Black One
19 Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
18 High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
17 Earth - hex (or Printing In The Infernal Method)
16 Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution
15 Blut Aus Nord - Thematic Emanation oF Archetypal Multiplicity
14 Sigh - Gallows Gallery
13 Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
12 Witchcraft - Firewood
11 Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
10 Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
09 Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
08 Candlemass - Candlemass
07 Burst - Origo
06 The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital
05 Opeth - Ghost Reveries
04 Deathspell Omega - Kenose
03 Cathedral - Garden Of Uneearthly Delights
02 Jesu - Jesu
01 Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three

1 Opeth

Opeth won practically all the other categories too.

Shame Torche didn't make it.

You notice the winner of Kerrang's album isn't in there.

That Sigh album is pretty good (doubt i'd like their previous stuff if its black metal though).

"Imaginary Sonicscape" is roughly 5000x better than the new Sigh... and only tangentially bm, to boot. Actually, it's way closer to the Virtua Tennis soundtrack than, say, Immortal. Lots of hammond organ and hot licks suitable for heightening the intensity of a 5min volley that ends with a massive smash that your buddy doesn't even see coming! New one is a little disappointing in comparison.

High fives to Terrorizer for putting Meshuggah at #1 as well.

Personally, I'm lovin that Meshuggah, Jesu, Deathspell Omega, Sigh, and Candlemass placed pretty high.

Om have recorded and mixed their new album, Conference of the Birds, which is slated for release in March 2006 on Holy Mountain. The album will be released on both LP and CD formats. The record was engineered by Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis, Fantomas). A split 7" with Six Organs of Admittance has also been completed and will be released by Holy Mountain.

and theres a Jesu release coming on Aurora Borealis. Anyone know if it's an ep or an album?

Trivium!>?!?!?!?!?!? FUCK DAT SHIT HOMEEz

MetalReview.com 2005 End of the Year Feature
http://metalreview.com/2005.aspx?ID=200500

Metal-Rules.com - Best of 2005
http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=11

TARTAREAN DESIRE'S BEST OF 2005
http://www.tartareandesire.com/topalbums_2005.html

1. Gojira
2. Falkenach
3. Candlemass
4. Moonsoorow
5. Solefald
6. Judas Priest
7. Cryptopsy
8. Bolt Thrower
9. Ulver
10. Grand Magus
11. Hate Eternal
12. Jesu
13. Akercocke
14. Taake
15. Meshuggah
16. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
17. Belphegor
18. Exodus
19. Black Witchery
20. Deathspell Omega
21. Opeth
22. Obituary
23. Sunn o)))
24. Johnny Traunt
25. Octavia Sperati
26. Immolation
27. Hate Forest
28. Arch Enemy
29. Strapping Young Lad
30. Norma Jean
31. Napalm Death
32. Municipal Waste
33. Cursed
34. Arcturus
35. Primordial
36. Kreator
37. Hypocrisy
38. Drudkh
39. Dark Tranquillity
40. Thyrfing

Zero Tolerance is a UK based Extreme Metal magazine
http://www.ztmag.com/

1. Opeth
2. Nile
3. Cryptopsy
4. Bolt Thrower
5. 1349
6. Strapping Young Lad
7. Ulver
8. Nevermore
9. Jesu
10. Gojira

Good to see the Jesu getting props though.

http://www.stonerrock.com/features/index.asp?FeatureID=134

1. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wiings (11050 pts)
2. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze (8696 pts)
3. Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus (7585 pts)
4. Corrosion of Conformity - In the Arms of God (6688 pts)
5. YOB - The Unreal Never Lived (5340 pts)
6. Sunn 0))) - Black One (5027 pts)
7. Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (4924 pts)
8. Witchcraft - Firewood (4634 pts)
9. Dozer - Through The Eyes of Heathens (4468 pts)
10. Hermano - Dare I Say (4441 pts)
11. Om - Varations on a Theme (4438 pts)
12. Brant Bjork and the Bros - Saved by Magic (4266 pts)
13. Earth - Hex: or Printing In The Infernal Method (4183 pts)
14. Cathedral - The Garden of Unearthly Delights (4091 pts)
15. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn (3763 pts)
16. The Atomic Bitchwax - 3 (3605 pts)
17. Acid King - III (3370 pts)
18. Jesu - Self Titled (3349 pts)
19. Bongzilla - Amerijuanican (3254 pts)
20. Ufomammut - Lucifer Songs (3107 pts)
21. Grand Magus - Wolf´s Return (2964 pts)
22. Spiritual Beggars - Demons (2736 pts)
23. Dead Meadow - Feathers (2435 pts)
24. Crowbar - Life`s Blood for the Downtrodden (2254 pts)
25. The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead (2203 pts)

Perhaps it was always like that apart from the early 90s.

None of those hair metal bands in the 80s won anything did they? Bon Jovi have probably had more Kerrang covers than any band (apart from maybe Metallica) and they certainly never won anything.