IN FLAMES, SEPULTURA, MACHINE HEAD, ARCH ENEMY Members Reveal Their Favorite Albums Of 2005

December 1, 2005

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"

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