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Decibel Best of 2005 – Issue # 15
1. Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
2. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
3. The Red Chord – Clients
4. Withered – Momento 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 Reason
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 Earth
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
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To TopDecibel Best of 2006 – Issue # 27
1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
3. Converge - No Heroes
4. Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
5. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
6. Jesu – Silver
7. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
8. Enslaved – Ruun
9. Tragedy - Nerve Damage
10. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
11. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
12. Burst – Origo
13. Isis - In the Absence of Truth
14. Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
15. Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma
16. Craft - Fuck the Universe
17. The Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name
18. Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
19. Planes Mistaken for Stars – Mercy
20. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
21. Suffocation - Suffocation
22. Fucked Up - Hidden World
23. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
24. Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger
25. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
26. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
27. Unearthly Trance – Trident
28. Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
29. Scott Walker - The Drift
30. Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
31. Made Out of Babies – Coward
32. Engineer – Reproach
33. Lamb of God – Sacrament
34. Boris – Pink
35. Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth
36. Protest The Hero – Kezia
37. Cretin – Freakery
38. The Sword - Age of Winters
39. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
40. First Blood – Killafornia
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To TopDecibel Best of 2007 – Issue # 39
1. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
2. Watain – Sworn to The Dark
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
4. Jesu – Conqueror
5. Baroness – The Red Album
6. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
7. Witchcraft – The Alchemist
8. Portal – Outre’
9. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion
10. A Life Once Lost – Iron Gag
11. Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
12. The Red Chord – Prey For Eyes
13. Pelican – City of Echoes
14. Moonsorrow – V: Hävitetty
15. Bergraven – Dödsvisioner
16. Graf Orlock – Destination Time Tomorrow
17. Melt-Banana - Bambi’s Dilemma
18. The End – Elementary
19. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
20. Caina – Mourner
21. Machine Head – The Blackening
22. Magrudergrind – Rehashed
23. Rosetta – Wake/Lift
24. Big Business – Here Comes The Waterworks
25. Dax Riggs – We Sing of Only Blood or Love
26. Obliteration – Perpetual Decay
27. Architect – All Is Not Lost
28. Rwake – Voice of Omens
29. Engineer – The Dregs
30. Down – III: Over The Under
31. Destroyer Destroyer
32. Evoken – A Caress of The Void
33. Between The Buried and Me – Colors
34. Torche – In Return
35. Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
36. Pissed Jeans – Hope For Men
37. Year Of No Light – Nord
38. Darkest Hour – Deliver Us
39. Trap Them – Sleepwell Deconstructor
40. Grave In The Sky – Cultery Hits China: Engllish for the Hearing Impaired
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To TopDecibel Best of 2008 – Issue # 51
1. Torche – Meandrthal
2. Nachtmystium – Assassins : Black Meddle Part 1
3. Genghis Tron – Board Up The House
4. Opeth – Watershed
5. The Gates of Slumber – Conqueror
6. Rotten Sound – Cycles
7. Origin – Antithesis
8. Wetnurse – Invisible City
9. Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner
10. Disfear – Live The Storm
11. Harvey Milk – Life… The Best Game In Town
12. Krallice – Krallice
13. Amon Amarth – Twilight Of The Thunder God
14. Pyramids – Pyramids
15. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
16. Enslaved – Vertebrae
17. Esoteric – The Maniacal Vale
18. Toxic Holocaust – An Overdose of Death
19. Gods and Queens – Gods and Queens
20. Intronaut – Prehistoricisms
21. Hail Of Bullets – Of Frost and War
22. Hour of 13 – Hour of 13
23. Trap Them – Seizures in Barren Praise
24. Gridlink – Amber Gray
25. Hennes Siste Host – Host
26. 5ive – Hesperus
27. Testament – The Formation of Damnation
28. Bloodbath – The Fathomless Mastery
29. Blacklisted – Heavier Than Heaven, Lonlier Than God
30. Samothrace – Life’s Trade
31. Various Artists – This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 1
32. Meshuggah – obZen
33. Cynic – Traced In Air
34. Aura Noir – Hades Rise
35. Witch – Paralyzed
36. Decrepit Birth – Diminishing Between Worlds
37. North – What You Were
38. Graveyard – Graveyard
39. Withered – Folie Circularie
40. Coffins – Buried Death
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To TopDecibel Best of 2009 – Issue #63
1. Baroness – The Blue Record
2. Converge – Axe to Fall
3. Coalesce – Ox
4. Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave
5. Cobalt – Gin
6. Kylesa – Static Tensions
7. Slayer – World Painted Blood
8. Tombs – Winter Hours
9. Marduk – Wormwood
10. Isis – Wavering Radiant
11. Immortal – All Shall Fall
12. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
13. Obscura – Cosmogenesis
14. Magrudergrind – Magrudergrind
15. Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest
16. YOB – The Great Cessation
17. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
18. Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us
19. The Atlas Moth – A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky
20. Asphyx – Death… The Brutal Way
21. Altar of Plagues – White Womb
22. Mournful Congregation – The June Frost
23. Funeral Mist – Maranatha
24. The Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood and Thunder
25. Burnt By The Sun – Heart of Darkness
26. City of Ships – Look What God Did To Us
27. Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes of God
28. Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back
29. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day
30. Keelhaul – Keelhaul’s Triumphant Return to Obscurity
31. The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
32. Brutal Truth – Evolution Through Revolution
33. Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough
34. Culted – Below The Thunders of the Upper Sleep
35. Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed
36. Suffocation – Blood Oath
37. Javelina – Beasts Among Sheep
38. Municipal Waste – Massive Aggressor
39. Millions – Gather Scatter
40. Funebrarum – The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
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To TopDecibel Top 30 Grindcore Albums of All Times – Issue #53
1. Repulsion – Horrified
2. Napalm Death – Scum
3. Terrorizer – World Downfall
4. Siege – Drop Dead
5. Napalm Death – From Enslavement to Obliteration
6. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
7. Brutal Truth – Need to Control
8. Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless
9. Napalm Death – Mentally Murdered
10. Disrupt – Unrest
11. Napalm Death – Enemy of the Music Business
12. Pig Destroyer – Prowler In The Yard
13. Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
14. Carcass – Reek of Putrefaction
15. Rotten Sound – Murderworks
16. Nasum – Human 2.0
17. Bolt Thrower – In Battle Theres No Law
18. Assuck – Misery Index
19. Napalm Death – The Peel Sessions
20. Impetigo – Horror of the Zombies
21. SOB – Don’t Be Swindle
22. Heresy/Concrete Sex – Earache Split
23. Phobia – Return To Desolation
24. Dropdead – Dropdead
25. Nuclear Death – Carrion For Worm
26. General Surgery – Necrology
27. Brutal Truth – Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom
28. Spazz – La Revancha
29. Kill The Client – Escalation of Hostility
30. Cephalic Carnage – Exploiting Dysfunction
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To TopDecibel Top 20 Stoner Rock Albums of All Times – Issue #35
1. Black Sabbath – Masters of Reality
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3. Sleep – Jerusalem
4. Kyuss – Blues For The Red Sun
5. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
6. Queens of The Stone Age – Queens of The Stone Age
7. Trouble – Psalm 9
8. Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
9. Melvins – Bullhead
10. Hawkwind – Space Ritual
11. Masters of Reality – Masters of Reality
12. Witchfinder General – Death Penalty
13. Monster Magnet – Spine of God
14. Cathedral – The Ethereal Mirror
15. Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
16. Leaf Hound – Grower of Mushroom
17. The Obsessed – Lunar Womb
18. Acrimony – Tumuli Shroomaroom
19. High On Fire – Surrounded By Theives
20. Fu Manchu – In Search Of…
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To TopDecibel Top 20 Death Metal Albums of All Times – Issue #18
1. Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
2. Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
3. At The Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
4. Obituary – Cause of Death
5. Entombed – Left Hand Path
6. Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption
7. Carcass – Heartwork
8. Cryptopsy – None So Vile
9. Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos
10. Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding
11. Death – Scream Bloody Gore
12. Incantation – Onward To Golgotha
13. Morbid Angel – Covenant
14. Death – Human
15. Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
16. Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines
17. Suffocation – Pierced From Within
18. Dismember – Like An Everflowing Stream
19. Atheist – Unquestionable Presence
20. Autopsy – Mental Funeral
