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Comments (0) By Chuck Eddy Tuesday, Feb 8 2005

Despite new voters recruited from happening young so-called "extreme music" mags, metal albums didn't fare so hot in this year's Pazz & Jop poll: Mastodon's Leviathan finished 60th, followed by Comets on Fire if they count (63), Dungeon if they count (69), Eagles of Death Metal who probably shouldn't count (105), Isis (126), Converge (156), er, the Nirvana box I guess (176), then Velvet Revolver (201), and on and on into the abyss. Optimists might posit that the sheer quantity of not entirely horrible metal records these days works against them in polls like this. Pessimists might add that the inability of most to convey any semblance of a human personality can't help.

Relax, it's only beer.

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DEAD MEADOW
Feathers
(Matador psych-metal album)
Download "At Her Open Door" (MP3)

ETERNAL FLIGHT
Positive Rage
(Cruz Del Sur power-metal album)
Download "The Masks Will Fall" (MP3)

GRAVE
Fiendish Regression
(Century Media Scandinavian death-metal album) Download "Reborn" (MP3)

HOT CROSS
Fair Trades and Farewells
(Level Plane screamo-progged art-core EP) Download "Throw Collars to the Wind" (MP3)

JAG PANZER
Casting the Stones
(Century Media power-metal album) Download "Legion" (MP3) Download "Battered and Bruised" (MP3)

MÄGODE OZ
Gaia
(Locomotive Spanish art-metal album) Download "La Costa del Silencio" (MP3)

PECCATUM
Lost in Reverie
(The End Scandinavian goth-metal album) Sample "Desolate Ever After" (MP3) Sample "Black Star" (MP3)

REQUIEM AETERNAM
Philosopher
(ICorp America Spanglish doom-ridden "dialectical metal" album) Download "Wisdom (Video Edit)" (MP3) Download "Untitled (Track 8)" (MP3)

STURMGEIST
Meister Mephisto
(Season of Mist Oktoberfest thrash album) Sample "Erlkönig" (MP3) Sample " Walpurgisnacht" (MP3)

TESLA
Into the Now
(Sanctuary stadium-rock album) Sample "Into The Now" (MP3) Sample "Look @ Me" (MP3) Sample "What a Shame" (MP3) Sample "Heaven Nine Eleven" (MP3) Sample "Words Can't Explain" (MP3) Sample "Caught in a Dream"

THOR AND MICK HOFFMAN
Beastwomen From the Center of the Earth: A Rock Odyssey
(Thor Toen power-metal album) Watch Thor's Classic Video for "Anger" from 2004's Triumphant (Quicktime)

TIAMAT
Prey
(Century Media Scandinavian goth-metal album) Downlaod "Cain" (MP3)