Favorite Album From Each Year

[karljant]

2022: Zeal & Ardor - s/t

Monster record. Their last one not so much. Still liked it though.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Monster record. Their last one not so much. Still liked it though.

Same!

 

[Wogmidget]

Alrighty then, let's see what's changed in the past four-to-five years

*checks old list*

oh my
______________________

1970: Deep Purple - In Rock
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head
1973: Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
1974: King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976: Boston - Boston
1977: Rush - A Farewell to Kings
1978: Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
1979: AC/DC - Highway to Hell

1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
1983: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1985: Virgin Steele - Noble Savage
1986: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
1987: Helloween - The Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part I
1988: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
1989: Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

1990: Judas Priest - Painkiller
1991: Saraya - When the Blackbird Sings
1992: Dream Theater - Images and Words
1993: Deep Purple -The Battle Rages On
1994: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Part I
1995: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Part II
1996: Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
1997: Nightwish - Angels Fall First
1998: Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
1999: Dream Theater - Metropolis, Part II

2000: Iron Maiden - Brave New World
2001: Avantasia - The Metal Opera, Part I
2002: Symphony X - The Odyssey
2003: Human Fortress - Defenders of the Crown
2004: Motorhead - Inferno
2005: Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
2006: Sabaton - Attero Dominatus
2007: Crystal Viper - The Curse of the Crystal Viper
2008: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
2009: Mastodon - Crack the Skye

2010: Crystal Viper - Legends
2011: Battle Beast -Steel
2012: The Sword - Apocryphon
2013: Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing (and other stories)
2014: Arch Enemy - War Eternal
2015: Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
2016: Epica - The Holographic Principle
2017: Unleash the Archers - Apex
2018: Judas Priest - Firepower
2019: Frozen Crown - Crowned in Frost

2020: Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
2021: Crystal Viper - The Cult
2022: The Neptune Power Federation - Le Demon De L'Amour
2023: Blood Star - First Sighting
2024: Unleash the Archers - Phantoma

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Yallah, I wonder what years I can even cover

1969: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Pink Floyd - Meddle
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1976: Rush - 2112
1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall
What a short decade

1980: Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
1983: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1985: Helloween - Walls of Jericho
1986: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
1987: Anthrax - Among the Living
1988: Meatallica - ...And Justice for All
1989: Sabbat - Dreamweaver

1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1991: Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
1992: Dream Theater - Images & Words
1993: Death - Individual Thought Patterns
1994: Dream Theater - Awake
1995: Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
1996: Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
1997: Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
1998: Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
1999: Virgin Steele - House of Atreus Act I

2000: Ayreon - Universal Migrator
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002: Dream Thetaer - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
2003: Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
2004: Ayreon - The Human Equation
2005: Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
2006: Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
2007: Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2008: Trivium - Shogun
2009: Extra Life - Secular Works

2010: Blaze Bayley - Promise and Terror
2011: Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2012: Soen - Cognitive
2013: The Ocean - Pelagial
2014: Soen - Tellurian
2015: Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Caligula's Horse - In Contact
2018: The World is Quiet Here - Prologue
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath

2020: Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
2021: Others by No-One: Book II: Where Stories Come From
2022: Blind Guardian - The God Machine
2023: The World is Quiet Here - Zon
2024: Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

 

[Poto]

1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1972: Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
1973: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1974: Deep Purple - Burn
1975: Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
1976: Rainbow - Rising
1977: UFO - Lights Out
1978: Rainbow - Long Live Rock N Roll
1979: Rainbow - Down to Earth

1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1981: Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1983: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1985: Dio - Sacred Heart
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
1988: Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
1989: Savatage - Gutter Ballet

1990: Judas Priest - Painkiller
1991: Metallica - Metallica
1992:
1993: Savatage - Edge of Thorns
1994: Helloween - Master of the Rings
1995: Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
1996: Angra - Holy Land
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
1998: Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
1999: Gamma Ray - Power Plant

2000: Iron Maiden - Brave New World
2001: Avantasia - The Metal Opera 1
2002: Nightwish - Century Child
2003: Evanescence - Fallen
2004: Edguy - Hellfire Club
2005: Angra - Temple of Shadows
2006: Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
2007: Helloween - Gambling with the Devil
2008: Avantasia - The Scarecrow
2009: Amorphis - Skyforger

2010: Accept - Blood of the Nations
2011: Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
2012: Sabaton – Carolus Rex
2013:
2014: Sabaton - Heroes
2015: Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
2016: Avantasia - Ghostlights
2017:
2018:
2019: Rammstein

2020:
2021: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
2022: Halestorm - Back From the Dead
2023: Within Temptation - Bleed Out
2024: Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

With a few gaps. Hopefully I remember to update the list next year and compare.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

1992

I think this was an excellent year. Surely you could find something cool right? There's Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, WASP, Pantera, Running Wild, Stratovarius, Testament, Rage, Annihilator and many others from 1992.

 

[Diesel 11]

Plus Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Bolt Thrower, shit, even Iron Fucking Maiden lol.

 

[Poto]

I think this was an excellent year. Surely you could find something cool right? There's Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, WASP, Pantera, Running Wild, Stratovarius, Testament, Rage, Annihilator and many others from 1992.

I was considering Images and Words, but I haven't listened to it in 10-15 years. As for the rest, there are several albums I have heard, but none have made a big impression or I haven't heard enough.

 

[Daggmask2009]

I’ll only do the 80’s:

1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1981: Black Sabbath - Mob rules
1982: Iron Maiden - Number of beast
1983: Dio - Holy Diver
1984 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1985: Dio - sacred heart
1986: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
1987: Savatage - hall of the mountain king
1988: Iron Maiden - Seventh son
1989: Savatage - Gutter ballet

 

[karljant]

2019: Tool - Fear Inoculum
2018: Zeal And Ardor - Stranger Fruit
2017: Anathema - The Optimist
2016: Cult Of Luna And Julie Christmas - Mariner
2015: Rosetta - Quintessential Ephemera
2014: Peter Murphy - Lion
2013: Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
2012: Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
2011: Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2010: Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent

2009: Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
2008: Cynic - Traced In Air
2007: Rosetta - Wake/ Lift
2006: Fields Of The Nephilim - Mourning Sun
2005: Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
2004: The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
2003: Killing Joke - Killing Joke 2003
2002: Peter Murphy - Dust
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2000: Devin Townsend - Physicist

1999: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
1998: Devin Townsend - Infinity
1997: Paradise Lost - One Second
1996: Cubanate - Barbarosa
1995: Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
1994: The Cult - The Cult
1993: Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
1992: Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
1991: Entombed - Clandestine
1990: Judas Priest - Painkiller

1989: The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge
1988: Sabbat - History Of A Time To Come
1987: The Young Gods - The Young Gods
1986: Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
1985: The Cult - Love
1984: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1983: Death Cult - Death Cult
1982: Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
1981: Iron Maiden - Killers
1980: Rocky Erickson - The Evil One

1979: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class
1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1974: King Crimson - Red
1973: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1972: Black Sabbath - Vol 4
1971: Led Zeppelin - IV
1970: Black sabbath - Paranoid

1969: Led Zeppelin - II
1968: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
1967: Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Updated into the 2020's

2020: Paradise Lost - Obsidian
2021: Sleigh Bells - Texis
2022: Final Light - Final Light
2023: Bizarra Locomotiva - Volutabro
2024: Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood