Since we are now well into 2004, it is time to present the Hardcore Poetic top ten CD's of 2003. This list is subject to change at any time, and if, based on my evident taste's, you can think of an album I may not have considered, feel free to let me know.

1. The Juliana Theory - "Love"
2. As I Lay Dying - "Frail Words Collapse"
3. Project 86 - "Songs to Burn Your Bridges By"
4. Nodes of Ranvier - ST
5. Radiohead - "Hail to the Thief"
6. The Appleseed Cast - "Two Conversations"
7. The Agony Scene - ST
8. Beloved - "Failure On"
9. Slow Coming Day - "Farewell to the Familiar"
10. Copeland - "Under Medicine Tree"


Honorable Mentions:

From Autumn to Ashes - "The Fiction We Live"
Further Seems Forever - "How to Start a Fire"
Narcissus - "Crave and Collapse"
Muse - "Absolution"
Apocalyptica - "Reflections"
Noise Ratchet - ST
Celldweller - ST
Cool Hand Luke - "Wake Up O' Sleeper"
Ester Drang - "Infinite Keys"
Anberlin - "Blueprints for the Black Market"
Shai Hulud - "That Within Blood Ill Tempered"