This was 2005 - our Top-5's

Written by Reflections of Darkness Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:13

It's the end of our first year, we have published many articles and reviewed many bands. The least we could do is have a quick look back and see what moved us most in 2005. There's no clear winner in the concert department but with the albums there seems to be one big winner for 2005: Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel.

Let's hope we'll all enjoy at least one of the shows of the band when they are doing their 2006 European Tour and they might end up leading our 2006 concerts list.

Please read the rest of the articles of some of our crew members' personal top-5's

Edwin van der Ende

Albums

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
3. Epica - Consign to Oblivion
4. Kamelot - Black Halo
5. Life of Agony - Broken Valley

Concerts

1. Life of Agony - Tilburg
2. Fish - Paradiso
3. Opeth - Utrecht
4. Crüxshadows - Utrecht
5. Dream Theater - Amsterdam

Daniela Vorndran

Albums

1. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
2. Goldfrapp - Supernature
3. Edge of Dawn - The Flight [Lux]
4. VNV Nation - Matter + Form
5. KMFDM - Hau Ruck

Concerts

1. Billy Idol - Düsseldorf
2. Skinny Puppy - Bochum
3. Coldplay - Oberhausen
4. AHA - Cologne October
5. Erasure - Cologne March

Roos Glastra

Albums

1. Stream of Passion - Embrace the Storm
2. The Dreamside - Spin Moon Magic
3. After Forever - Remagine
4. Renaissance - Faun
5. In Extremo - Mein Razend Herz

Concerts

1. Joe Cocker - Rotterdam
2. In Extremo - Tilburg
3. Rosa Crux - Gothtronic festival
4. Within Temptation - Amsterdam
5. Lacuna Coil - Metal Female Voices Fest 3

Mattias Nordgren

Albums

1. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
2. Goldfrapp - Supernature
3. VNV Nation - Matter+Form
4. NIN - With Teeth
5. Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum

Concerts

1. Skinny Puppy - M'era Luna
2. Coldplay - Oberhausen
3. Vive la Fête - electriXmas
4. Erasure - Cologne
5. Laibach - Malmöfestivalen

Jörg Uhlenbruch

Albums

1. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
2. New Order - Waiting For The Siren's Call
3. Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
4. The Editors - The Back Room
5. Fischerspooner - Odyssey

Concerts

1. Skinny Puppy - Zeche Bochum
2. Skinny Puppy - Mera Luna Festival
3. Maximo Park - Gleis22 Münster
4. Covenant - Vooruit Gent
5. The Robocop Kraus - Molotov Hamburg

Thomas Adorff

Albums

1. Fields of the Nephilim - Morning Sun
2. Corvus Corax - Cantus Buranus
3. ASP - Aus der Tiefe
4. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
5. Diary of Dreams - Alive

Concerts

1. Apoptygma Berzerk - Mainz
2. Nightwish - Stuttgart
3. New Model Army - Saarbrücken
4. Diary of Dreams - Dark-Dance Treffen
5. Corvus Corax - Straßburg

Carolin Schulten

Albums

1. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
2. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
3. Chimaira - Dito
4. Robbie Williams - Intensive Care
5. The Boss Hoss - Internashvill Urban Hymes

Concerts

1. Nine Inch Nails - Area 4 Festival
2. Die Krupps - Wave Gotik Treffen
3. Chimaira - Cologne
4. Hocico - Wave Gotik Treffen
5. Skinny Puppy - M´era Luna Festival

Lars Krüger

Albums

1. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
2. Scum of the Earth - Blah.. Blah.. Blah... Love Songs For The New Millennium
3. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
4. Hatesphere - The Sickness Within
5. Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost

Concerts

1. Nine Inch Nails - Area 4 Festival
2. Die Krupps - Wave Gotik Treffen
3. Skinny Puppy - M´era Luna Festival
4. Beatsteaks - Area 4 Festival
5. Steril - Wave Gotik Treffen

Cristel Brouwer

Albums

1. Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day
2. After Forever - Remagine
3. Life of Agony - Broken Valley
4. Epica - Consign to Oblivion
5. Nemesea - Mana

Concerts

1. After Forever - Eindhoven
2. Bon Jovi - Amsterdam
3. Apocalyptica - Den Haag
4. A-HA - Amsterdam
5. Nemesea - Huntenpop

Eric Hazebroek

Albums

1. Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun
2. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
3. Circa Survive - Juturna
4. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
5. Goldfrapp - Supernature

Concerts

1. Billy Idol - Amsterdam
2. Coheed & Cambria - Rotterdam
3. Garbage - Amsterdam
4. Fates Warning (featuring Mike Portnoy) - Headway Festival
5. Porcupine Tree - Tilburg

Silvia Deurwaarder

Albums

1. Pain of Salvation - Be
2. Kreator - Enemy of God
3. The Old Dead Tree - Perpurtual Motion
4. Tristania - Ashes
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Concerts

1. Iron Maiden - Bospop
2. Morbid Angel - Antwerp
3. Nightwish Stuttgart
4. Kreator - Tilburg
5. Bloodbath - Wacken Open Air

Sam Grant

Albums

1. Stream Of Passion - Embrace The Storm
2. Lumsk - Troll
3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4. Mortal Love - I Have Lost
5. Epica - Consign To Oblivion

Concerts

1. After Forever - Metal Female Voices Fest 3
2. Asrai - Oss
3. Within Temptation - London
4. Opeth - London
5. Epica - Metal Female Voices Fest 3

Femke Hansen

Albums

1. Dream Theater - Octovarium
2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
3. Foo Fighters - In your Honor
4. Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of souls
5. After Forever - Remagine

Concerts

1. Dream Theater - Graspop
2. Iron Maiden - Graspop
3. Opeth - Amsterdam
4. Yngwie Malmsteen - Tilburg
5. Beef - Utrecht

Leon Fonville

Albums

1. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2. Freak Kitchen - Organic
3. Arch Enemy - Doomsdag Machine
4. Meshuggah - Catch 33
5. Anthrax - Alive 2

Concerts

1. Iron Maiden - Graspop
2. Freak Kitchen - Amstelveen
3. Opeth - Utrecht
4. Anthrax - Graspop
5. Yngwie Malmsteen - Tilburg

Nicole Kizina

Albums

1. Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
2. Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost
3. GUN - The River Sessions
4. Billy Idol - Devil's Playground
5. Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day

Concerts

1. Billy Idol - Düsseldorf
2. A-ha - Cologne
3. Coldplay - Cologne
4. Paradise Lost - Bochum
5. Erasure - Cologne