This Week In Metal: September 22nd, 2005
As a new weekly column here on metalunderground.com, we are going to recap top 10 albums of the week in metal, and the top 10 singles based on radio airplay. We'll be tapping into CMJ's album chart, which is based strictly album sales in the United States, and MusicChoice satellite radio for the top 10 singles chart based on requests of peers listening to the station, times the album or single is played, including local and stateswide regional metal radio stations.
In the comming weeks, we will be discussing previous weeks position, chart jumpers, new debuts, total weeks on the chart and most weeks as #1.
Top 10 Albums
1. Opeth "Ghost Reveries"
2. Between The Buried And Me "Alaska"
3. Arch Enemy "Doomsday Machine"
4. Every Time I Die "Gutter Phenonmenon"
5. Chimaira "Chimaira"
6. Black Dahlia Murder "Miasma"
7. Fear Factory "Transgression"
8. Hypocrisy "Virus"
9. Biohazard "Means To An End"
10. YoB "The Unreal Never Lived"
Top 10 Singles
1. Arch Enemy - Nemesis
2. Soilent Green - Forgive and Regret
3. Every Time I Die - Guitarred and Feathered
4. A Dozen Furies - Awake and Lifeless
5. The Absense - Necropolis
6. Thine Eyes Bleed - Cold Victim
7. Clutch - The Incomparable Mr. Flannery
8. It Dies Today - Severed Ties Leave Severed Heads
9. Darkest Hour - This Will Outlive Us
10. Watch Them Die - Bastard Son
Since metal hardly penetrates the mainstream music charts, we wanted to spread the word of some of the best releases in metal. We would love to hear your feedback on the charts, the bands in them and this new column. Keep The Horns High \m/.
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19 Comments on "This Week In Metal: September 22nd, 2005"
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2. writes:
Yeah, well you have to consider everything put into it. The CMJ chart is based on album sales in and around the US. Not on radio airplay or any of that. It wouldnt make much sense to make a albums chart, and base it on something other then how much the album sells.
The Singles chart is based on satellite radio airplay/requests. On a limited scale. It doesnt track every metal radio channel that exsists (even though there arent that many MAJOR ones). But it does a good job in taking in the entire scene and putting out the best of the best at the time. The musicchoice channel is labeled metal, and plays metal and its surroundings, it wouldnt make sense for them to publish things they dont get alot of airplay, if they are looking to keep/broaden their viewers. They (or anyone) would want to play what attracts the most audience at the time, which currently yes leands more toward hardcore.
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3. writes:
None of those bands are straight hardcore - the ones you're probably referencing are metalcore, which is certainly in the realm of metal. There'd be a lot less to talk about if this was "classic metal underground". It would be more to some people's liking and less to others'. The only trap I didn't want to fall into is relying on hard rock/metal charts that are dominated by mainstream hard rock, nu-metal or radio metal, as many are.
5. writes:
finally,the absense and thine eyes bleed are getting recognition,both bands are way underated and deserved some exposure,..what i really want to know is how it dies today is getting so popular,they're the bottom feeders of that horrible screamo genre,get them the f*** out of here
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9. writes:
deathbringer and -1:
what i was trying to get across was how a good amount of the bands listed were metalcore (more in the singles area) and how that charts usually display whats popular, rather than whats on the rise, or whats up and comming, or anything that'll get someone to say cool i wanna check that band out.
what would be cool if someone or some company were to show the biggest gainers or something. bands that have one album sale like 1000 copies and their next abum sales like 30,000 copies.
10. writes:
i count six metalcore bands in the singles chart,even though darkest hour has a very strong thrash element to their stuff,and it dies today i have a hard time calling metalcore because of how pathetic their breakdowns are but i included them too,i just really wish that they would actually die today
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12. writes:
Oh I understand z, but like you said it would take up too much time and resources. And even then, if a band sold 31,000 over the 30,000 they would still be doing better. I am surprized by alot of the list myself, but being a stat freak I came up with the idea to do this and see how it went.
13. writes:
Ghost Reveries, Transgression, Virus and to a slightly lesser degree Doomsday Machine are awesome albums. I've got to admit to never hearing ANY of the singles, aside from Nemesis though. The band names look decidedly metalcore, so maybe that's a good thing. Comments? Suggestions?
15. writes:
Doomsday machine is awful in my opinion... even anthems of rebellion stomped it... it would be nice to see arch enemy return a bit to their roots in the sense of their musicianship, not necessarily their music.
Im not saying, "f*** new arch enemy, sound like you did with lliva!", but they have really degressed in showing their musical ability...
16. writes:
I agree with most of your comments, metalhead, (other than the awful rating you gave it), it is a bit disappointing compared to past works. Even Angela's vox seemed worse on this one. I hope that they aren't going to lose that wonderful guitar interplay that they had now that Chris is out of the band.
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18. writes:
i'm not sure that i can say that doomsday machine is awful but it is kinda dissapointing,i actually thought that anthems of rebellion was quite good but wages of sin is without a doubt their best in my eyes,the problem that they have developed is that their songwriting is average and they always seem to use basic song structure,but once again the musianship was good and the production is fantastic as always
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1. zMETALlica writes:
sounds cool, but it would be nice to see less hardcore on those charts and more metal, since thats what this is about.
my only question is how do they do the 'charts' is it just what gets played most? if thats the case then it has nothing to do with what is best since CMJ stuff is ALL formated based on how much something is going to be promoted/money is paid for it. for example, where's the nevermore? i've heard MUCH more people talking about them than arch enemy or most of the bands there. the only band i've heard about more than them is opeth, though they are almost on the same level at this point, except they are on a major label.
its a good idea to have some kind of chart system, but i think it may be cooler to have the users on this site vote for what they think is the best or something. though, again, this will probably result in mainstream/hardcore bands up top. this is really what i don't like about chart systems.
what could be cool is to (somehow) track non-RIAA (independant) label sales and show a chart of that (after all we are Metal Underground), but that would be too time consuming and expensive.