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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (August 2006)

Individual Staff Top 5 Lists

Alex N.

1. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)

2. The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)

3. Pink Razors - Waiting To Wash Up (Robotic Empire)

4. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)

5. Crime In Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro Records)

Bob

1. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell (Touch and Go)

2. Tragedy - Nerve Damage (Tragedy)

3. Jesu - Silver (Hydra Head)

4. The Sword - Age of Winters (Kemado)

5. Rise and Fal l- Into Oblivian (Deathwish Inc)

Chris

1. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

2. Islands - Return to the Sea (Equator)

3. Rocky Votolato - Makers (Barsuk)

4. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)

5. Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World (Quote Unquote)

Cory

1. Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression (No Idea)

2. Woods - How to Survive In/In the Woods (Release the Bats)

3. Thursday - A City By the Light Divided (Island)

4. Ampere / Sinaloa - Split (Ebullition)

5. Life at These Speeds / Science of Yabra - Split (Grey Sky)

Evan

1. Intronaut - Null (Goodfellow)

2. Ihsahn - The Adversary (Candlelight)

3. Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive (Moonfog)

4. Rise And Fall - Into Oblivion (Deathwish Inc.)

5. Path of Resistance - Can't Stop the Truth (Victory)

Gil

1. Crime In Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)

2. Guns Up! - Outlive (1917)

3. Shook Ones - Slaughter of the Insole (Revelation)

4. Set Your Goals - Reset (Eulogy)

5. Less Than Jake - In With the Out Crowd (Sire)

Giles

1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)

2. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti)

3. T.I. - King (Grand Hustle)

4. Roy - Killed John Train (Lujo)

5. Guns Up! - Outlive (1917)

Graham

1. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (Saddle Creek)

2. Defiance, Ohio - The Great Depression (No Idea)

3. Thursday - A City by the Light Divided (Island)

4. Appleseed Cast - Peregrine (The Milita Group)

5. Amy Millian - Honey from the Tombs (Arts and Crafts)

Jason

1. The First Step - What We Know (Rivarly)

2. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro)

3. None More Black - This is Satire (Fat Wreck Chords)

4. The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)

5. Shooks Ones - Slaughter of the Insole (Revelation)

Jenny

2. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy (Downtown)

3. Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)

4. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)

5. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (Sanctuary/Roadrunner)

Josh F.

1. Crime in Stereo - The Troubled Stateside (Nitro Records)

2. The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart (Fat Wreck Chords)

3. Boy Sets Fire - The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years (Equal Vision Records)

4. This is Hell - Sundowning (Trustkill Records)

5. Ryan's Hope - Apocalypse In Increments (Punknews Records)

Kevin

1. Celtic Frost - Monotheist (Century Media)

2. Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom (Ipecac)

3. Hank III - Straight To Hell (Bruc)

4. Cross Examination - The Hung Jury (Organized Crime)

5. Apiary - Lost In Focus (Ironclad Recordings)

Matt

1. Rocky Votolato - Makers (Barsuk)

2. AFI - Decemberunderground (Interscope)

3. Saves The Day - Sound The Alarm (Vagrant)

4. The Lawrence Arms - Oh, Calcutta! (Fat Wreck)

5. Omar Rodriguez - Omar Rodriguez (Willie Anderson)

Michael

1. Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion (Deathwish Inc.)

2. Junius - Blood is Bright (Radar)

3. Russian Circles - Enter (Flameshovel)

4. Force of Change - The Bond We Share (This Blessing, This Curse)

5. Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (Downtown)

Neil

1. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (4AD/Interscope)

2. Ampere/ Sinaloa - Split Recording (Ebullition)

3. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)

4. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell (Touch And Go)

5. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista (Constellation)

Neil F.

1. Adam Green - Jacket Full of Danger (Rough Trade)

2. Tool - 10,000 Days (Volcano)

3. A.F.I. - Decemberunderground (Interscope)

4. Good Riddance - My Republic (Fat Wreck)

5. Dismantled - Standard Issue (Dependent/Metropolis)

Pat

1. AFI - Decemberunderground (Interscope)

2. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)

3. T.I. - King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

4. Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Abacus)

5. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Matador)

Scott

1. The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us (Kill Rock Stars)

2. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell (Touch and Go)

3. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine (Militial)

4. Sweetthieves - A View From a Glass Tower (Independent)

5. Growing - Color Wheel (Megablade/Troubleman)

Sean L.

1. Mind Eraser - Glacial Reign (Painkiller)

2. Phoenix Bodies - Raise the Bullshit Flag (HCNL)

3. Graf Orlock - Destination Time Yesterday (Level Plane)

4. Starkweather - Croatoan (Candlelight)

5. Tragedy - Nerve Damage (Tragedy)

Zed

1. The Advantage - Elf-Titled (5 Rue Christine)

2. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)

3. Tragedy - Nerve Damage (Tragedy)

4. Ceremony - Violence Violence (Malfunction)

5. Ampere/Sinaloa Split (Ebullition)