The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2005. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2005 in music.

First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2005 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January4 Ol' Dirty Bastard Osirus Hip-hop Sure Shot Recordings January5 Firewind Forged by Fire Power metal Century Media January10 Adam Green Gemstones Anti-folk, alternative country Rough Trade Kreator Enemy of God Thrash metal SPV/Steamhammer Tunng Mother's Daughter and Other Songs Folktronica Static Caravan January11 Cass McCombs PREfection 4AD The Fiery Furnaces EP Indie rock Rough Trade Living Colour Live from CBGB's Hard rock, funk, thrash metal Epic Trembling Blue Stars The Seven Autumn Flowers Bar/None Various artists Coach Carter: Music from the Motion Picture Hip-hop, R&B Capitol January13 The Chemical Brothers Push the Button Electronica Virgin, Freestyle Dust, EMI January17 Arena Pepper's Ghost Progressive rock Inside Out Music Grave Digger The Last Supper Heavy metal Nuclear Blast Hood Outside Closer Indie rock, glitch pop, experimental pop Domino January18 Black Mountain Black Mountain Psychedelic rock, alternative rock, stoner rock Jagjaguwar Fozzy All That Remains Heavy metal, hard rock, alternative metal Ash Records The Game The Documentary West Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Aftermath, G-Unit, Interscope January24 Apocalyptica Apocalyptica Symphonic metal, neoclassical metal, progressive metal Universal Music Germany, Vertigo Erasure Nightbird Synth-pop Mute Glenn Hughes Soul Mover Hard rock, blue-eyed soul, funk rock Frontiers, Yamaha, Sanctuary LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem Dance-punk, electronica, indie rock DFA, Capitol, EMI Lou Barlow Emoh Folk rock, lo-fi Merge, Domino M83 Before the Dawn Heals Us Electronic, shoegaze, dream pop Mute, Virgin, Gooom Mercury Rev The Secret Migration Alternative rock V2 January25 Adrian Belew Side One Rock Sanctuary ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart Alternative rock, art rock, indie rock Interscope Ani DiFranco Knuckle Down Indie rock, folk rock Righteous Babe Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeney Superwolf Drag City Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Electronica, pop, synth-pop Saddle Creek Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning Folk, indie folk, folk rock Saddle Creek Chamillionaire and Paul Wall Controversy Sells Southern hip-hop Paid in Full Dark Tranquillity Character Melodic death metal Century Media Geto Boys The Foundation Gangsta rap, Southern hip-hop Rap-A-Lot, Asylum, Elektra Jimmy Chamberlin Complex Life Begins Again Jazz fusion, alternative rock Sanctuary Kenny Chesney Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair) Country, Gulf and Western BNA LeAnn Rimes This Woman Country pop Asylum, Curb Low The Great Destroyer Slowcore Sub Pop Magnapop Mouthfeel Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop Daemon The Octopus Project One Ten Hundred Thousand Million Indie rock, electronica Peek-A-Boo Plain White T's All That We Needed Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop Fearless Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Naturally Soul, funk Daptone Six Organs of Admittance School of the Flower Experimental rock Drag City Spock's Beard Octane Progressive rock Inside Out Music January28 Roots Manuva Awfully Deep Hip-hop Big Dada January31 Athlete Tourist Soft rock Parlophone Feeder Pushing the Senses Alternative rock, power pop, post-Britpop Echo Masterplan Aeronautics Power metal AFM

February + List of albums released in February 2005 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February1 Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal Alternative rock, emo Tooth & Nail Antony and the Johnsons I Am a Bird Now Chamber pop Secretly Canadian Brazilian Girls Brazilian Girls Electronic, pop Verve High on Fire Blessed Black Wings Stoner metal, sludge metal Relapse John Frusciante Curtains Acoustic, rock, indie folk Record Collection Kelly Joe Phelps Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind Blues, country blues Rykodisc Mötley Crüe Red, White & Crüe Heavy metal, glam metal Mötley Seventh Day Slumber Once upon a Shattered Life Christian rock BEC Recordings Tristania Ashes Gothic metal SPV/Steamhammer Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning Punk rock Lava WarCry ¿Dónde Está La Luz? Heavy metal, power metal Jaus, Avispa February2 Bloc Party Silent Alarm Indie rock, post-punk revival, dance-punk Wichita February5 Immolation Harnessing Ruin Death metal Listenable February7 Karnivool Themata Nu metal, progressive metal, alternative metal Bieler Bros. Little Barrie We Are Little Barrie Alternative rock, UK R&B revival PIAS, Artemis February8 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days Alternative rock, post-grunge Universal The Academy Is... Almost Here Pop-punk, emo pop, alternative rock Fueled by Ramen Andrew Bird Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs Baroque pop, indie folk Righteous Babe Brian McKnight Gemini Motown Crowbar Lifesblood for the Downtrodden Sludge metal Candlelight Dälek Absence Ipecac Eisley Room Noises Indie rock Reprise The Golden Republic The Golden Republic Rock Astralwerks Lee Ann Womack There's More Where That Came From Neotraditional country MCA Nashville Michael Bublé It's Time Vocal jazz, traditional pop 143, Reprise Rapper Big Pooh Sleepers Hip-hop 6 Hole Records, Caroline Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust Hip-hop Epitaph February11 The Mars Volta Frances the Mute Progressive rock Gold Standard Laboratories February14 The Boy Least Likely To The Best Party Ever Twee pop Too Young to Die Electric Six Señor Smoke Alternative rock, funk rock Warner Bros., Metropolis February15 American Head Charge The Feeding Nu metal, alternative metal, industrial metal DRT Entertainment, Nitrus Goldfinger Disconnection Notice Pop-punk, punk rock, alternative rock Maverick Mary Gauthier Mercy Now Country, folk Lost Highway The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke Experimental rock Stars and Satellites Records Stellar Kart All Gas. No Brake. Pop-punk, punk rock, Christian rock Word They Might Be Giants Here Come the ABCs Children's music Disney Sound, Idlewild Records February20 Tori Amos The Beekeeper Alternative rock Epic February21 Doves Some Cities Indie rock Heavenly The Kills No Wow Domino, RCA, Rough Trade Nightrage Descent into Chaos Melodic death metal Century Media February22 Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives Hip-hop Definitive Jux The Afters I Wish We All Could Win Christian rock INO, Epic Armor for Sleep What to Do When You Are Dead Emo, progressive rock, punk rock Equal Vision Ben Lee Awake Is the New Sleep Indie pop New West, Inertia Distribution Bone Brothers Bone Brothers Hip-hop, gangsta rap Koch Busdriver Fear of a Black Tangent Progressive rap Mush Chely Wright The Metropolitan Hotel Country Painted Red, Dualtone Comeback Kid Wake the Dead Hardcore punk Victory Crooked Fingers Dignity and Shame Indie rock Merge David S. Ware Quartets Live in the World Free jazz Thirsty Ear Enon Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence Post-punk, noise pop, synth-pop Touch and Go Heartless Bastards Stairs and Elevators Fat Possum M. Ward Transistor Radio Folk Merge, Matador Omarion O R&B, hip-hop Epic, Sony Urban Roger Miret and the Disasters 1984 Punk rock, Oi!, street punk Hellcat Sole Live from Rome Hip-hop Anticon Steve Vai Real Illusions: Reflections Instrumental rock, progressive metal, heavy metal Epic Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game Dub, trip hop, downtempo ESL TRU The Truth Southern hip-hop, gangsta rap The New No Limit, Koch William Elliott Whitmore Ashes to Dust Alternative country Southern

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