ALTERCATION MAGAZINE’S TOP 5 of ‘05

Daryl Litts/ Staff Writer
1. Foetus - Love - Birdman
2. The Birthday Massacre - Violet - Metropolis
3. Funker Vogt - Navigator - Metropolis
4. Ladytron - Witching Hour - Ryko
5. Wumpscut - Evoke Metropolis

Katie Cahill / Staff Writer
1. CocoRosie - Noah’s Ark - Touch & Go Records  
2. Various Artists - One Kiss May Lead to Another: Girl Groups Lost and Found - Rhino
3. Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning - Saddle Creek
4. Deerhoof - The Runners Four - KRS
5. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Sony

JT Habersaat / Publisher
1. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity - Fat Wreck Chords
2. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods - Sub Pop
3. Mindless Self Indulgence - You’ll Rebel To Anything - Metropolis
4. Ramallah - Kill A Celebrity - Thorp
5. Bloody Hollies - If Footmen Tire You - Alive

Brian Martens / Staff Writer
1. Ramallah- Kill a Celebrity - Thorp
2. Propaghandi- Potemkin City Limits - Fat Wreck Chords
3. Duane Peters Gunfight- S/T - Disaster
4. The Fall- The Real New Fall LP -  Narnack
5. OCS- 3&4 - Narnack

Bob Trendy / Staff Writer
1. Deep Eynde - Shadowland - Disaster
2. The Generators - Excess, Betrayal, and our Dearly Departed - Fiend Music
3. Smoke or Fire - Above the City - Fat Wreck Chords
4. Left Alone-Lonely Stars & Broken Hearts-Hellcat  
5. Dropkick Murphy’s-Warrior’s Code-Hellcat

Donna Habersaat / Art Director
1. Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity - Fat Wreck Chords
2. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks World Strike  - Side 1 Dummy
3.  Sleater-Kinney - The Woods - Sub Pop
4. Casket Architects - Dance On The Death Nerve - Glacial  
5. MSI - You’ll Rebel To Anything- Metropolis

Zac Shaw / Staff Writer
1. And You Will know Us By The Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart - Interscope
2. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo - Columbia
3. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain - Load
4. Angus Martin - Presqu’ile - Soluna
5. Divest - Ghost Town Reckoning - FKM