Best albums are:

1) Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth.
2) Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death.
3) Edguy - Rocket Ride.

Average Releases:

Just one, Grave Digger - Liberty or Death.

Disappointing:

Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony.

I haven't yet heard Amon Amarth's 'With Oden on your Side', so I can't comment on it. That's about all.

Did anyone else listen to new one from Rx Bandits? It's called And The Battle Begun, it is rather good.

yeah, the new rx Bandits CD is pretty good. I think its the whole energy of the album that makes it so good. They just know how to structure music well without getting artsy.

Here's my list...

50 Islands - Return to the Sea
49 Elefant - Black Magic Show
48 The Longcut - A Call and Response
47Herbert - Scale
46 Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
45 Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
44 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
43 Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
42 Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
41 Tiga - Sexor
40 She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
39 I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends
38 Red Sparrowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
37 The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
36 Peter Bjorn & John - Writers Block
35 !Forward Russia! - Give me a wall
34 The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
33 Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
32 Cat Power - The Greatest
31 Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
30 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
29 Amy Milan - Honey From The Tombs
28 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
27 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
26 Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
25 Califone - Roots & Crowns
24 B. Fleishmann - The Humbucking Coil
23 The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love
22 Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Hate
21 Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
20 Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
19 Mogwai - Mr Beast
18 Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
17 Electric President - Electric President
16 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
15 LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
14 King Biscuit Time - Black Gold
13 Sodastream - Reservations
12 Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
11 Guillemots - Through the Windopane
10 Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
9 The Knife - Silent Shout
8 James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
7 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
6 The Dears - Gang of Losers
5 Grandaddy - Just Like the Famply Cat
4 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3 Asobi Seksu - Citrus
2 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
1 Hot Chip - The Warning

^oh my, I feel like you added some of that on there merely to fill out the 50, but opinions are opinions, eh? Listen to the Cold War Kids so that you can have a new #1 :-D

Yeah, Elefant? Come on, that album was awful.

Converge - No Heroes

Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulent

Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors

probably some more I can't remember. I'm bad at knowing what year things came out in.