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Topic: Best Metal album each year since 1970

Posted By: Vim Fuego
Subject: Best Metal album each year since 1970
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 12:06am

So what does everyone reckon?

This list is originally from Loudwire, and it got posted on another site, where everyone is arguing what's "metal" and what's not. Over there, they're kind of "hard core metal", and wouldn't accept a lot of the bands on this site as counting as metal. I reckon we can get better results here by using any band from the site here.

1970: Black Sabbath, 'Paranoid'
1971: Black Sabbath, 'Master of Reality'
1972: Black Sabbath, 'Vol. 4'
1973: Black Sabbath, 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
1974: Budgie, 'In for the Kill'
1975: Black Sabbath, 'Sabotage'
1976: Judas Priest, 'Sad Wings of Destiny'
1977: Scorpions, 'Taken By Force'
1978: Judas Priest, 'Stained Class'
1979: Motorhead, 'Overkill'
1980: Black Sabbath, 'Heaven and Hell'

1981: Ozzy Osbourne, 'Diary of a Madman'
1982: Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast'
1983: Dio, 'Holy Diver'
1984: Iron Maiden, 'Powerslave'
1985: Exodus, 'Bonded by Blood'
1986: Metallica, 'Master of Puppets'
1987: King Diamond, 'Abigail'
1988: Queensryche, 'Operation: Mindcrime'
1989: Morbid Angel, 'Altars of Madness'
1990: Megadeth, 'Rust in Peace'

1991: Metallica, 'Metallica'
1992: Pantera, 'Vulgar Display of Power'
1993: Type O Negative, 'Bloody Kisses'
1994: Pantera, 'Far Beyond Driven'
1995: At the Gates, 'Slaughter of the Soul'
1996: Tool, 'Ænima'
1997: Emperor, 'Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk'
1998: Death, 'The Sound of Perseverance'
1999: The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'Calculating Infinity'

2000: Iron Maiden, 'Brave New World'
2001: Tool, 'Lateralus'
2002: Agalloch, 'The Mantle'
2003: Children of Bodom, 'Hate Crew Deathroll'
2004: Mastodon, 'Leviathan'
2005: Opeth, 'Ghost Reveries'
2006: Mastodon, 'Blood Mountain'
2007: Between the Buried and Me, 'Colors'
2008: Meshuggah, 'obZen'
2009: Mastodon, 'Crack the Skye'
2010: Ghost, 'Opus Eponymous'

2011: Septicflesh, 'The Great Mass'
2012: Between the Buried and Me, 'The Parallax II: Future Sequence'
2013: Gorguts, 'Colored Sands'
2014: Behemoth, 'The Satanist'
2015: Iron Maiden, 'The Book of Souls'
2016: Devin Townsend Project, 'Transcendence'

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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 12:19am

Here's my list!

1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Alice Cooper - Killer
1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head
1973: Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
1974: Deep Purple - Burn
1975: AC/DC - TNT
1976: AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
1977: Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
1978: Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo
1979: Motorhead - Overkill
1980: Motorhead - Ace of Spades

1981: Iron Maiden - Killers
1982: Twisted Sister - Under The Blade
1983: Slayer - Show No Mercy
1984: Bathory - Bathory
1985: S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
1986: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
1987: Carnivore - Retaliation
1988: Slayer - South of Heaven
1989: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
1990: Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican

1991: Entombed - Clandestine
1992: Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubious
1993: Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge
1994: Nailbomb - Point Blank
1995: Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
1996: The Exploited - Beat the Bastards
1997: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
1998: Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
1999: Brutal Truth - Goodbye Cruel World
2000: Macabre - Dahmer

2001: Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
2002: 8 Foot Sativa - Hate Made Me
2003: Apocalyptica - Reflections
2004: Usurper - Cryptobeast
2005: Kreator - Enemy of God
2006: Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2007: Blood Duster - Lyden Na
2008: Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil...We Were In League With Satan
2009: Steel Panther - Feel the Steel
2010: Melechesh - The Epigenesis

2011: Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
2012: Terrorizer - Hordes of Zombies
2013: Carcass - Surgical Steel
2014: Devilskin - We Rise
2015: Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre - Til Death Do Us Party
2016: Wormrot - Voices
2017 (so far) : Sepultura - Machine Messiah

Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 1:17am

My knowledge of 70's stuff is quite limited so I often only have one album to pick from.

1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

1971: Budgie - Budgie

1972: Budgie - Squawk

1973: Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

1974: Budgie - In for the Kill (or if I can have one more on the hard rock line: Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla)

1975: Budgie - Bandolier

1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny / Rainbow - Rising (don't ask me to pick between these two)

1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class

1979: N/A

1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell

1981: Iron Maiden - Killers

1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

1983: Metallica - Kill 'Em All

1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave (but Metallica - Ride the Lightning is very close)

1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

1986: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

1987: Sanctuary - Refuge Denied

1988: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory

1990: Annihilator - Never, Neverland

1991: Matthias Steele - Haunting Tales of a Warrior's Past

1992: Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

1993: Grave Digger - The Reaper

1994: Running Wild - Black Hand Inn

1995: Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

1996: Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike

1997: Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space

1998: Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (favourite album of all time)

1999: Grave Digger - Excalibur

2000: Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park

2002: Cruachan - Folk-Lore

2003: Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd

2005: Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2006: To-Mera - Transcendental

2007: Rebellion - Miklagard: The History of the Vikings, Volume II

2008: Akphaezya - Anthology II: Links From the Dead Trinity

2009: Anubis Gate - The Detached

2010: Winterhorde - Underwatermoon

2011: Aquilus - Griseus

2012: Seven Kingdoms - The Fire is Mine

2013: Dark Design - Prey for the Future

2014: Spectral Lore - III

2015: Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

2016: Lascaille's Shroud - The Roads Leading North

2017 (so far): Fen - Winter

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Posted By: Warthur
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 11:07am

Allowing proto-metal into the mix to make the 1970s a bit more competitive...

1970: Black Sabbath - s/t

1971: The Who - Who's Next

1972: Wishbone Ash - Argus

1973: The Stooges - Raw Power

1974: Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

1975: Scorpions - In Trance

1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

1977: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class

1979: Judas Priest - Unleashed In the East

1980: Motorhead - Ace of Spades

1981: Accept - Breaker

1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

1983: Manilla Road - Crystal Logic

1984: Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath

1985: Manilla Road - Open the Gates

1986: Slayer - Reign In Blood

1987: Candlemass - Nightfall

1988: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

1989: Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

1990: Megadeth - Rust In Peace

1991: Paradise Lost - Gothic

1992: Darkthrone - A Blaze In the Northern Sky

1993: Dissection - The Somberlain

1994: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley

1995: In the Woods... - Heart of the Ages

1996: Skunk Anansie - Stoosh

1997: Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...

1998: Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

1999: Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour On Earth

2000: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

2001: Enslaved - Monumension

2002: Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

2003: Sleep - Dopesmoker

2004: Mayhem - Chimera

2005: Candlemass - s/t

2006: Celtic Frost - Monotheist

2007: Dethklok - The Dethalbum

2008: Blood Ceremony - s/t

2009: Immortal - All Shall Fall

2010: Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

2011: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust

2012: Wodensthrone - Curse

2013: Cult of Luna - Vertikal

2014: Electric Wizard - Time to Die

2015: Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

2016: Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule

Posted By: Warthur
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 11:26am

Hmmm... so based off my chart the best metal bands ever (in terms of album of the year releases) would be Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Electric Wizard. Seems legit.

Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2017 at 12:55pm

I can't do this for the 80's and 90's. Too many amazing albums that I pretty much love equally.

Here's my list for the 70's, I'll see if I can make one for the 2000's.

1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head

1973: Eloy - Inside

1974: Eloy - Floating/Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla (I couldn't pick between these two, I love them both)

1975: Rush - Caress of Steel/Black Sabbath - Sabotage

1976: Rush - 2112

1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin/Rush - A Farewell to Kings/AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class/Budgie - Impeckable/Heart - Dog and Butterfly

1979: Motorhead - Overkill

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Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2020 at 10:57am

I'm going to give this a real try now, here it goes:

1970: Deep Purple - In Rock

1971: Budgie - Budgie

1972: Night Sun - Mournin'

1973: Buffalo - Volcanic Rock

1974: Eloy - Floating

1975: Rush - Caress of Steel

1976: Rush - 2112

1977: Scorpions - Taken By Force

1978: Judas Priest - Killing Machine

1979: Nazareth - No Mean City

1980: Van Halen - Women and Children First

1981: Riot - Fire Down Under

1982: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

1983: Black Sabbath - Born Again

1984: Helstar - Burning Star

1985: Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy

1986: Megadeth - Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?

1987: Anthrax - Among the Living

1988: Anthrax - State of Euphoria

1989: Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

1990: Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

1991: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

1992: Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power

1993: Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror

1994: Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance

1995: Clutch - Clutch

1996: Godflesh - Songs of Love and Hate

1997: Powerman 5000 - Mega!! Kung Fu Radio

1998: Clutch - The Elephant Riders

1999: Korn - Issues

2000: Nothingface - Violence

2001: Mushroomhead - XX

2002: Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come

2003: A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

2004: Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder...

2005: Clutch - Robot Hive / Exodus

2006: Voxis - Darkeworld

2007: Korn - Untitled

2008: Helstar - The King of Hell

2009: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious

2010: Shining - Blackjazz

2011: Anthrax - Worship Music

2012: 10 Years - Minus the Machine

2013: Clutch - Earth Rocker

2014: Chevelle - La Gargola

2015: Clutch - Psychic Warfare

2016: Chevelle - The North Corridor

2017: Havok - Conformicide

2018: Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits

2019: Korn - The Nothing

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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2020 at 11:56am

I'd forgotten about this list! I'll have to revisit it later and see if I still agree!