Metal Albums of 2004-2012

Has anyone else noticed the recent wave of really good metal albums that have come out in the last year?

Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
Norther - Death Unlimited
Amon Amarth - Fate of the Norns
Persuader - Evolution Purgatory
Mnemic - The Audio Injected Soul
The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution
Angra - Temple of Shadows
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
Edguy - Hall of Flames
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Behemoth - Demigod

There are plenty more but those are the ones i can remember this early in the morning, ill update with more when i remember, feel free to add...But yeah, its been a great year for metal...HAIL!

Anaal Nathrakh - Domine Non Es Dignus
Behemoth - Demigod
Bethlehem - Mein Weg
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Carnal Forge - Aren't You Dead Yet
Carnal Forge - Destroy
Dark Funeral - De Profundis Clamavi Ad Te Domine
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Enslaved - Isa
Finntroll - Nattfodd
Haggard - Eppur Si Muove
Graveland - Dawn Of Iron Blades
God Dethroned - The Lair Of The White Worm
Grave - Fiendish Regression
Incantation - Decimate Christendom
Incapacity - Ninth Order Extinct
Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
Marduk - Plague Angel
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Nocte Obducta - Nektar Teil I - Zwölf Monde Eine Hand Voll Traume
Malevolent Creation - Warkult
Opera IX - Anphisbena
The Chasm - The Spell Of Retribution
The Crown - Crowned Unholy
Vader - The Beast
Vomitory - Primal Massacre
Windir - Valfar, Ein Windir

Hmm, yeah, really good by the looks of it.

Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned

How did you guys miss that I would put it as album of the year. That stands above anything else that comes to mind.

Probably because I'm not a Thrash fan. Good album, nonetheless.

Hmmm i am a thrash fan (im a fan of most metal genres) and i STILL missed that Exodus album...wow im slow, gonna have to check that out.

And Razor, did you consider Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache a really good cd? if you do thats cool, but i just thought it was a real letdown after Alive or Just Breathing, but not a bad cd by any right...still worthy to be on the list though.

Yeah, considering I didn't like their previous ones, this one was quite a surprise.

you forgot the new mastodon cd...its fucking great.

What was the title of Mastodon's newest album? And if you know was it the one with the song from Tony Hawks Underground? From what i remember of them they have a really mashed together mix of death/thrash that sounds strange but cool sometimes.

Windir - Valfar, Ein Windir

That's a best of-album (tribute to Valfar), not really a new studio album. :p

Some personal favourites from 2004:
Haggard - Eppur Si Muove
My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos

I enjoy the hell out of the new Pain of Salvation CD.

Thanks for the heads up Razor.

I don't like metal. But have fun

[Dogstik8]

i liked a few in flames tracks and thought the KSE cd was fucking great. never heard of those bands till i read about them here so thanks to whoever posted about it.

i liked a few in flames tracks and thought the KSE cd was fucking great. never heard of those bands till i read about them here so thanks to whoever posted about it.

Were just spreading the love of metal here today arent we oh and btw, thats In flames worst cd, get clayman, reroute to remain,and colony if you like them...and KSE's 2nd cd, "Alive or just breathing" was better imo when they didnt have the black guy singer.

Fear Factory - Archetype

Fear Factory - Archetype

Not a bad cd, not their best, i thought the song called "slave labor" was pretty sweet.