Since the site’s inception, we’ve held annual community polls to determine our favourite records – but what of the years prior to the Bowl’s existence? Today is your chance to let us know what album(s) would have made your “Best of 2004” list.

A few months ago on the Toilet ov Hell Social Club I asked the group to participate in a poll to try and gauge if there was concensus on which albums kicked the most arse from the utterly meaningless years before the Flushening®. So starting with 2013 and descending from there, I asked the group to nominate only their most cherished records and upvote all the stuff they dug at the time/dig now. The votes poured in, and while we did end up with a pretty good cross-section of what the diverse demographic dug, it occurred to me that a bunch of you dwelling in the doldrums of Disqus might like to voice your opinions too. The way this will run is via essentially the same method as we do for the end-of-year community album polls.

Time to pull out all your 2004 albums

How To Vote

1. Don’t be a dropkick
2. Make sure all comments are shown before adding your picks
3. List your favorite album(s) in the comment (don’t nominate an album that sucks)
4. Crucify that fucken ctrl+f to make sure you aren’t being a reposting dropkick
5. Upvote the other albums you love (down-voting does nothing)
6. Double-check the record you’re nominating is from 2004

Now just to get you started, I’ll post a heap of the polling options to refresh your memory of some of the albums from 2004. As discussed last week, add these in the comments to vote for them, then add your own too.

• • • Meshuggah – I
    • Bloodbath – Nightmares Made Flesh
    • Enslaved – Isa (me, Mario!)
    • The Chasm – Spell Of Retribution
    • Nercophagist – Epitaph
    • Hypocrisy – The Ayyyrrivalmao
    • Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer
    • Isis – Panoptikong
    • Lamb Of God – Ashes Of The Wake
    • Nasum – Shift
    • Evergrey – The Inner Circle
    • Arsis – Celebration Of Guile
    • Mastodon – Leviathan
    • Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spork
    • The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
    • Shadows Fall – The Wart Within
    • 3 Inches Of Blood – Advance And Vanquish
    • Sonata Arctica – Reckoning Night
    • Mötörhëäd – Infërnö
    • Neurosis – The Eye Of Ever Peter Stormare
    • Suffocation – Souls To Deny
    • Xasthur – To Violate The Oblivious
    • Unearth – The Oncoming Storm
    • Cult Of Luna – Salvation
    • My Dying Bride – Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
    • Ayreon – The Human Equation
    • Soulfly – Prophecy
    • Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartachey Breaky Heart
    • Drudkh – Autumn Aurora
    • Rammstein – Reise Reise
    • Converge – You Fail Me, Shame On You, Faile Me Twice, Shame On Me
    • Jesu – Jesu
    • The Haunted – rEVOLVEr
    • Finntroll – Nattfödd
    • Clutch – Blasst Tyrant
    • Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
    • Wintersun – Wintersun Pickups
    • Fear Factory – Archetype
    • Woods Of Ypres – Pursuit Of The Sun
    • Amon Amarth – Fate Of Normies
    • Megadeth – The System Has Failed
    • Anata – Under A Stone With No Inscription
    • Death Angel – The Art Of Dying
    • Esoteric – Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum
    • Slipknot – Vlol. 3
    • Pagan Altar – Lords Of Hypocrisy
    • Incantation – Decimate Christendong
    • Borknagar – Epic
    • Dio – Master Of The Moon
    • Defeated Sanity – Prelude To The Tragedy
    • Nightwish – (not even) Once

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