In the December/January issue of the Swedish magazine Close-Up, a number of heavy metal/hard rock musicians list their favorite albums of 2005.
Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA):
BIOHAZARD – "Means to an End" CLAUSTROPHOBIA – "Fulminant" EXODUS – "Shovel Headed Kill Machine"
Anders Fridén (IN FLAMES):
NINE INCH NAILS - "With teeth" 10 YEARS – "The Autumn Effect" COHEED AND CAMBRIA – "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV – Volume One…"
Leif Edling (CANDLEMASS)
OPETH – "Ghost Reveries" ARCH ENEMY – "Doomsday Machine" SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – "Demons"
Nergal (BEHEMOTH):
SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Mezmerize" NEVERMORE – "This Godless Endeavor" NINE INCH NAILS – "With Teeth"
Robert Flynn (MACHINE HEAD):
SYSTEM OF A DOWN – "Mezmerize" GOD FORBID – "IV: Constitution of Treason” CHIMAIRA – "Chimaira"
Angela Gossow (ARCH ENEMY):
OBITUARY – "Frozen in Time" GOJIRA – "From Mars to Sirius" SPIRITUAL BEGGARS – "Demons"
Tuomas Holopainen (NIGHTWISH):
CHILDREN OF BODOM – "Are You Dead Yet?" EPICA – "Consign to Oblivion" MOONSORROW – "Verisäkeet"
John Tardy (OBITUARY):
MADBALL – "Legacy" RED CHORD – "Clients" SCUM – "Gospels for the Sick"
Anders Nyström (KATATONIA):
OPETH – "Ghost Reveries" STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – "Alien" SOILWORK – "Stabbing the Drama"
Attila Csihar (MAYHEM, ex-ABORYM, TORMENTOR):
CODE – "Nouveau Gloaming" ARCTURUS – "Sideshow Symphonies" HYPOCRISY – "Virus"
Jörgen Sandström (VICIOUS ART, ex-GRAVE, ENTOMBED):
TRAUMA – "Determination" LOST SOUL – "Chaostream" MUSTASCH – "Powerhouse"
Roger Miret (AGNOSTIC FRONT):
MADBALL – "Legacy" AGNOSTIC FRONT – "Another Voice" ROGER MIRET AND THE DISASTERS – "1984"
Nils Eriksson (NOCTURNAL RITES):
MASTERPLAN – "Aeronautics" SOILWORK – "Stabbing the Drama" JOURNEY – "Generations"
Casey Chaos (SCUM, AMEN):
DEATHSPELL OMEGA – "Kenose" 1349 – "Hellfire" TURBONEGRO – "Party Animals"
Peter Dolving (THE HAUNTED):
MODERN LIFE IS WAR – "Witness" RINGWORM – "Justice Replaced by Revenge" EARTH – "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method”
Oscar Dronjak (HAMMERFALL):
NOCTURNAL RITES – "Grand Illusion" JUDAS PRIEST – "Angel of Retribution" PRIMAL FEAR – "Seven Seals"
Fred Estby (DISMEMBER):
GRAND MAGUS – "Wolf's Return" THE HELLACOPTERS – "Rock & Roll is Dead" CANDLEMASS – "Candlemass