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
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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