1. Amorphis - Silent Waters
2. Paradise Lost - In Requiem
3. Ajattara - Kalmanto
4. Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
5. Pain - Psalms of Extinction
6. Dark Tranquility - Fiction
7. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
8. Samael - Solar Soul
9. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet
10. Battlelore - Evernight

This year it was very difficult to choose the best album of the year. It was a tough decision between the first 3 albums as all of them are great with very little to criticise. At the end I chose the Amorphis album because it's probably the easiest to listen to, and has the best cover art. The best music event of the year was Tuska, but then that's the first and only festival I've ever been so there was little competition there, even because there weren't loads of concerts in Dublin this year. The "revelations" this year were Pain and Ajattara. Even though they've been in existence for quite a while I only really listened to them this year.