My favourite albums from 2004

1. 50

   The Second Coming

   Church of Misery

   

   

   Stoner metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. I, Motherfucker (Ted Bundy)
   2. Soul Discharge (Mark Essex)
   3. Red Ripper Blues (Andrei Chikatilo) ●
   4. Filth Bitch Boogie (Aileen Wuornos)
   5. One Way ... or Another
   6. Candyman (Dean Coril)
   7. El Topo

2. 49

   Dünya Yalan Söylüyor

   Mor ve Ötesi

   

   

   Alternative rock | Pop rock

   Tracks:

   1. Yardım Et
   2. Cambaz
   3. Bir Derdim Var ●
   4. Re
   5. Sevda Çiçeği
   6. Serseri
   7. Aşk İçinde
   8. Az Çok
   9. Son Deneme
   10. Uyan

3. 48

   Love Is Hell

   Ryan Adams

   

   

   Alternative rock | Alt-country

   Tracks:

   1. Political Scientist
   2. Afraid Not Scared
   3. This House Is Not for Sale
   4. Anybody Wanna Take Me Home ●
   5. Love Is Hell
   6. Wonderwall
   7. The Shadowlands
   8. World War 24
   9. Avalanche
   10. My Blue Manhattan
   11. Please Do Not Let Me Go
   12. City Rain, City Streets
   13. I See Monsters
   14. English Girls Approximately
   15. Thank You Louise
   16. Hotel Chelsea Nights

4. 47

   Los Lonely Boys

   Los Lonely Boys

   

   

   Blues rock | Latin rock

   Tracks:

   1. Señorita
   2. Heaven ●
   3. Crazy Dream
   4. Dime mi amor
   5. Hollywood
   6. More Than Love
   7. Nobody Else
   8. Onda
   9. Real Emotions
   10. Tell Me Why
   11. Velvet Sky
   12. La contestación

5. 46

   Iron

   Ensiferum

   

   

   Folk metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Ferrum Aeternum
   2. Iron
   3. Sword Chant
   4. Mourning Heart — Interlude
   5. Tale of Revenge
   6. Lost in Despair
   7. Slayer of Light
   8. Into Battle
   9. LAI LAI HEI ●
   10. Tears

6. 45

   Lemuria

   Therion

   

   

   Symphonic metal | Gothic metal

   Tracks:

   1. Typhon
   2. Uthrak Runa
   3. Three Ships of Berik (Part 1: Calling to AArms and Fighting the Battle)
   4. Three Ships of Berik (Part 2: Victory!)
   5. Lemuria ●
   6. Quetzalcoatl
   7. The Dreams of Swedenborg
   8. An Arrow from the Sun
   9. Abraxas
   10. Feuer Overtüre / Prometheus Entfesselt

7. 44

   Catch for Us the Foxes

   mewithoutYou

   

   

   Post-hardcore | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. Torches Together
   2. January 1979 ●
   3. Tie Me up! Untie Me!
   4. Leaf
   5. Disaster Tourism
   6. Seven Sisters
   7. The Soviet
   8. Paper Hanger
   9. My Exit, Unfair
   10. Four Word Letter (Pt. Two)
   11. Carousels
   12. Son of a Widow

8. 43

   The Spell of Retribution

   The Chasm

   

   

   Death metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. From the Curse, a Scourge ...
   2. The Omnipotent Codex
   3. Conquer & Warlord
   4. Manifest My Intervention
   5. Fortress
   6. Retribution of the Lost Years (I, the Pastfinder III) ●
   7. Conjuring the New Apocalypse
   8. The Eclipse: Monument to the Empire
   9. Remains of the Covenant
   10. Eternal Cycle of Delusion

9. 42

   Back to Times of Splendor

   Disillusion

   

   

   Progressive death metal

   Tracks:

   1. ... And the Mirror Cracked
   2. Fall
   3. Alone I Stand in Fires
   4. Back to Times of Splendor ●
   5. A Day by the Lake
   6. The Sleep of Restless Hours

10. 41

    Thunder, Lightning, Strike

    The Go! Team

    

    

    Indietronica | Neo-Psychedelia

    Tracks:

    1. Panther Dash
    2. Ladyflash
    3. Feelgood by Numbers
    4. The Power Is on ●
    5. Get It Together
    6. Junior Kickstart
    7. Air Raid GTR
    8. Bottle Rocket
    9. Friendship Update
    10. Huddle Formation
    11. Everyone's V.I.P. to Someone

11. 40

    Epitaph

    Necrophagist

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Stabwound
    2. The Stillborn One
    3. Ignominious & Pale
    4. Diminished to B ●
    5. Epitaph
    6. Only Ash Remains
    7. Seven
    8. Symbiotic in Theory

12. 39

    You Fail Me

    Converge

    

    

    Metalcore | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. First Light
    2. Last Light
    3. Black Cloud
    4. Drop out
    5. Hope Street
    6. Heartless
    7. You Fail Me ●
    8. In Her Shadow
    9. Eagles Become Vultures
    10. Death King
    11. In Her Blood
    12. Hanging Moon

13. 38

    Salvation

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Echoes
    2. Vague Illusions
    3. Leave Me Here ●
    4. Waiting for You
    5. Adrift
    6. White Cell
    7. Crossing Over
    8. Into the Beyond

14. 37

    Marbles

    Marillion

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Invisible Man
    2. Marbles I
    3. Genie
    4. Fantastic Place
    5. The Only Unforgivable Thing
    6. Marbles II
    7. Ocean Cloud
    8. Marbles III
    9. The Damage
    10. Don't Hurt Yourself
    11. You're Gone ●
    12. Angelina
    13. Drilling Holes
    14. Marbles IV
    15. Neverland

15. 36

    Songs of Darkness, Words of Light

    My Dying Bride

    

    

    Death-Doom | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Wreckage of My Flesh
    2. The Scarlet Garden
    3. Catherine Blake
    4. My Wine in Silence ●
    5. The Prize of Beauty
    6. The Blue Lotus
    7. And My Fury Stands Ready
    8. A Doomed Lover

16. 35

    Around the Sun

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Leaving New York
    2. Electron Blue
    3. The Outsiders
    4. Make It All Okay
    5. Final Straw ●
    6. I Wanted to Be Wrong
    7. Wanderlust
    8. Boy in the Well
    9. Aftermath
    10. High Speed Train
    11. The Worst Joke Ever
    12. The Ascent of Man
    13. Around the Sun

17. 34

    Inferno

    Motörhead

    

    

    Heavy metal | Speed metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Terminal Show
    2. Killers
    3. In the Name of the Tragedy
    4. Suicide
    5. Life's a Bitch
    6. Down on Me
    7. In the Black
    8. Fight
    9. In the Year of the Wolf
    10. Keys to the Kingdom
    11. Smiling Like a Killer
    12. Whorehouse Blues ●

18. 33

    Tempo of the Damned

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Star Spangled Banner
    2. War Is My Shepherd
    3. Blacklist ●
    4. Shroud of Urine
    5. Forward March
    6. Culling the Herd
    7. Sealed with a Fist
    8. Throwing Down
    9. Impaler
    10. Tempo of the Damned

19. 32

    Nightmares Made Flesh

    Bloodbath

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Cancer of the Soul
    2. Brave New Hell
    3. Soul Evisceration
    4. Outnumbering the Day
    5. Feeding the Undead
    6. Eaten ●
    7. Bastard Son of God
    8. Year of the Cadaver Race
    9. The Ascension
    10. Draped in Disease
    11. Stillborn Saviour
    12. Blood Vortex

20. 31

    Lord of Hypocrisy

    Pagan Altar

    

    

    Heavy metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Lords of Hypocrisy
    2. Satan's Henchmen
    3. Sentinels of Hate
    4. Armageddon ●
    5. The Interlude
    6. The Aftermath
    7. The Masquerade
    8. The Devil Came Down to Brockley
    9. March of the Dead

21. 30

    Reise Reise

    Rammstein

    

    

    Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Reise, Reise
    2. Mein Teil
    3. Dalai Lama
    4. Kaine Lust
    5. Los
    6. Amerika
    7. Moskau
    8. Morgenstern
    9. Stein um Stein
    10. Ohne Dich ●
    11. Amout

22. 29

    Monolithic Baby!

    Monster Magnet

    

    

    Stoner rock | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Slut Machine
    2. Supercruel
    3. On the Verge
    4. Unbroken (Hotel Baby)
    5. Radiation Day
    6. Monolithic ●
    7. The Right Stuff
    8. There's No Way out of Here
    9. Master of Light
    10. Too Bad
    11. Ultimate EVerything
    12. CNN War Theme

23. 28

    Isa

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal | Viking metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Intro: Green Reflection
    2. Lunar Force ●
    3. Isa
    4. Ascension
    5. Bounded by Allegiance
    6. Violet Dawning
    7. Return to Yggdrasill
    8. Secrets of the Flesh
    9. Neogenesis
    10. Outro: Communion (excerpt)

24. 27

    A Ghost Is Born

    Wilco

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. At Least That's What You Said ●
    2. Hell Is Chrome
    3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
    4. Muzzle of Bees
    5. Hummingbird
    6. Handshake Drugs
    7. Wishful Thinking
    8. Company in My Back
    9. I'm a Wheel
    10. Theologians
    11. Less Than You Think
    12. The Late Greats

25. 26

    Auf der Maur

    Melissa Auf der Maur

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lightning Is My Girl
    2. Followed the Waves ●
    3. Real a Lie
    4. Head Unbound
    5. Taste You
    6. Beast of Honour
    7. I'll Be Anything You Want
    8. My Foggy Notion
    9. Would If I Could
    10. Overpower Thee
    11. SKin Receiver
    12. I Need I Want I Will

26. 25

    Prophecy

    Soulfly

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Prophecy ●
    2. Living Sacrifice
    3. Execution Style
    4. Defeath U
    5. Mars
    6. I Believe
    7. Moses
    8. Born Again Anarchist
    9. Porrada
    10. In the Meantime
    11. Soulfly UV
    12. Wings

27. 24

    Soundtrack to Your Escape

    In Flames

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. F(r)iend
    2. The Quiet Place ●
    3. Dead ALone
    4. Touch of Red
    5. Like You Better Dead
    6. My Sweet Shadow
    7. Evil in a Closet
    8. In Search for I
    9. Borders and Shading
    10. Superhero of the Computer Rage
    11. Dial 595-Escape
    12. Bottled

28. 23

    Wintersun

    Wintersun

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Beyond the Dark Sun
    2. Winter Madness
    3. Sleeping Stars
    4. Battle Against Time
    5. Death and the Healing
    6. Starchild
    7. Beautiful Death
    8. Sadness and Hate ●

29. 22

    Thieving from the House of God

    Orange Goblin

    

    

    Stoner metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Some You Win, Some You Lose ●
    2. One Room, One Axe, One Outcome
    3. Hard Luck
    4. Black Egg
    5. You're Not the One (Who Can Save Rock 'n' Roll)
    6. If It Ain't Broke, Break It
    7. Lazy Mary
    8. Round up the Horses
    9. Tosh Lines
    10. Just Got Paid
    11. Crown of Locusts

30. 21

    Jupiters Darling

    Heart

    

    

    Hard rock | Folk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Make Me
    2. Oldest Story in the World
    3. Things
    4. The Perfect Goodbye ●
    5. Enough
    6. Move on
    7. I Need the Rain
    8. I Give up
    9. Vainglorious
    10. No Other Love
    11. Led to One
    12. Down the Nile
    13. I'm Fine
    14. Fallen Ones
    15. Lost Angel
    16. Helllo Moonglow

31. 20

    Shadows Collide with People

    Johnn Frusciante

    

    

    Avant-garde rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Carvel
    2. Omission
    3. Regret ●
    4. Ricky
    5. Second Walk
    6. Every Person
    7. -00Ghost27
    8. Wednesday's Song
    9. This Cold
    10. Failure33Object
    11. Song to Sing When I'm Lonely
    12. Time Goes Back
    13. In Relief
    14. Water
    15. Cut-Out
    16. Chances
    17. 23 go in the End
    18. The Slaughter

32. 19

    Colour Haze

    Colour Haze

    

    

    Stoner rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Mountain
    2. Tao Nr. 43
    3. Did ét it
    4. Love ●
    5. Solitude
    6. Peace, Brothers & Sisters!
    7. Flowers

33. 18

    The Eye of Every Storm

    Neurosis

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Burn
    2. No River to Take Me Home
    3. The Eye of Every Storm ●
    4. Left to Wander
    5. Shelter
    6. A Season in the Sky
    7. Bridges
    8. I Can See You

34. 17

    Contraband

    Velvet Revolver

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Sucker Train Blues
    2. Do It for the Kids
    3. Big Machine
    4. Illegal I Song
    5. Spectacle
    6. Fall to Pieces
    7. Headspace ●
    8. Superhuman
    9. Set Me Free
    10. You Got No Right
    11. Slither
    12. Dirty Little Thing
    13. Loving the Alien

35. 16

    Gold Medal

    The Donnas

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. I Don't Want to Know (If You Don't Want Me)
    2. Friends Like Mine
    3. Don't Break Me Down
    4. Fall Behind Me
    5. Is That All You've Got for Me
    6. It's So Hard
    7. The Gold Medal ●
    8. Out of My Hands
    9. It Takes One to Know One
    10. Revolver
    11. Have You No Pride

36. 15

    One Day Remains

    Alter Bridge

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Find the Real
    2. One Day Remains
    3. Open Your Eyes
    4. Burn It Down
    5. Metalingus
    6. Broken Wings
    7. In Loving Memory
    8. Down to My Last
    9. Watch Your Words
    10. Shed My Skin
    11. The End Is Here ●

37. 14

    Tűnő Idő Tárlat

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Post-black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Csillagkohó ●
    2. Neath Waters
    3. Bolygő, Bolyongó
    4. Kék Ég Karaván
    5. Héja-Nász Az Avaron
    6. Zápor
    7. Az Ősanya Szól Ivadékaihoz
    8. Varjak Fekszenek

38. 13

    Since the Day It All Came Down

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Nocturne
    2. The Day It All Came Down
    3. Daughter of the Moon ●
    4. The Moment of Reckoning
    5. Bereavement
    6. Undet the Plaintive Sky
    7. Resonance
    8. Death Walked the Earth
    9. Disengagement
    10. Closing Words
    11. Song of the Forlorn Son

39. 12

    Hot Fuss

    The Killers

    

    

    Alternative rock | New wave

    Tracks:

    1. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
    2. Mr. Brightside
    3. Smile Like You Mean It
    4. Somebody Told Me ●
    5. All These Things That I've Done
    6. Andy, You're a Star
    7. On Top
    8. Change Your Mind
    9. Believe Me Natalie
    10. Midnight Show
    11. Everything Will Be Alright

40. 11

    The System Has Failed

    Megadeth

    

    

    Heavy metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Blackmail the Universe
    2. Die Dead Enough
    3. Kick the Chair
    4. The Scorpion
    5. Tears in a Vial
    6. I Know Jack
    7. Back in the Day ●
    8. Something That I'm Not
    9. Truth Be Told
    10. Of Mice and Men
    11. Shadow of Deth
    12. My Kingdom

41. 10

    Consider the Birds

    Wovenhand

    

    

    Gothic americana | Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Sparrow Falls
    2. Bleary Eyed Duty
    3. To Make a Ring
    4. Off the Cuff
    5. Chest of Drawers
    6. Oil on Panel
    7. The Speaking Hands ●
    8. Down in Yon Forest
    9. Tin Finger
    10. Into the Piano

42. 9

    Panopticon

    Isis

    

    

    Post-metal | post-rock

    Tracks:

    1. So Did We
    2. Backlit ●
    3. In Fiction
    4. Will Dissolve
    5. Syndic Calls
    6. Altered Course
    7. Grinning Mouths

43. 8

    Once

    Nightwish

    

    

    Symphonic metal | power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Chest of Wonders
    2. Wish I Had an Angel
    3. Nemo
    4. Planet Hell
    5. Creek Mary's Blood
    6. The Siren
    7. Dead Gardens
    8. Romanticide
    9. Ghost Love Score ●
    10. Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan
    11. Higher Than Hope

44. 7

    American Idiot

    Green Day

    

    

    Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. American Idiot
    2. Jesus of Suburbia
    3. Holiday
    4. Boulevard of Broken Dreams ●
    5. Are We the Waiting
    6. St. Jimmy
    7. Give Me Novacaine
    8. She's a Rebel
    9. Extraordinary Girl
    10. Letterbomb
    11. Wake Me up When September Ends
    12. Homecoming
    13. Whatsername

45. 6

    Never Apologise, Never Explain

    Therapy?

    

    

    Alternative metal | punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Rise up (Make Yourself Well)
    2. Die Like a Motherfucker
    3. Perish the Thought
    4. Here Be Monster
    5. So Called Life
    6. Panic!
    7. Polar Bear ●
    8. Rock You Monkey
    9. Dead
    10. Long Distance
    11. This Ship Is Skinking
    12. Save the Sermon
    13. Last One to Heaven's a Loser

46. 5

    Ashes of the Wake

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Laid to Rest ●
    2. Hourglass
    3. Now You've Got Something to Die for
    4. The Faded Line
    5. Omerta
    6. Blood of the Scribe
    7. One Gun
    8. Break You
    9. What I've Become
    10. Ashes of the Wake
    11. Remorse Is for the Dead
    12. Another Nail for Your Coffin

47. 4

    Leviathan

    Mastodon

    

    

    Sludge metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Blood and Thunder
    2. I Am Ahab
    3. Seabeast ●
    4. Island
    5. Iron Tusk
    6. Megalodon
    7. Naked Burn
    8. Aqua Dementia
    9. Hearts Alive
    10. Joseph Merrick

48. 3

    Hangover Music Vol. VI

    Black Label Society

    

    

    Hard rock | acoustic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Crazy or High
    2. Queen of Sorrow
    3. Steppin' Stone ●
    4. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
    5. Takillya (Estyabon)
    6. Won't Find It Here
    7. She Deserves a Free Ride (Val's Song)
    8. House of Doom
    9. Damage Is Done
    10. Layne
    11. Woman Don't Cry
    12. No Other
    13. Whiter Shade of Pale
    14. Once More
    15. Fear

49. 2

    Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Gothic rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Get Ready for Love
    2. Cannibal's Hymn
    3. Hiding All Away
    4. Messiah Ward
    5. There She Goesm My Beautiful World
    6. Nature Boy
    7. Abattoir Blues
    8. Let the Bells Ring
    9. Fable of the Brown Ape
    10. The Lyre of Orpheus
    11. Breathless
    12. Babe, You Turn Me on
    13. Easy Money ●
    14. Supernaturally
    15. Spell
    16. Carry Me
    17. O Children

50. 1

    Blast Tyrant

    Clutch

    

    

    Stoner rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Mercury
    2. Profits of Doom
    3. The Mob Goes Wild
    4. Cypress Grove
    5. Promoter (of Earthbound Causes)
    6. The Regulator
    7. Worm Drink
    8. Army of Bono
    9. Spleen Merchant
    10. (In the Wake of) The Swollen Goat
    11. Weathermaker
    12. Subtle Hustle
    13. Ghost ●
    14. (Notes from the Trial of) La Curandera
    15. WYSIWYG