Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Going through my top 15 favorite metal albums from 2005. Thought this would be fun to revisit some older years' best of lists and discuss albums that have stood the test of time. These albums are all celebrating their 20th anniversary this year.

The albums I discuss today are as follows, in alphabetical order (for the ranked order, you will have to watch the video!):

1349 - Hellfire
Belphegor - Goatreich: Fleshcult
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Demons & Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Falkenbach - Heralding: The Fireblade
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Horn - Jahreszeiten
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Paths of Possession - Promised in Blood
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad