Best albums every year from 1980

[MetallicSlayerDeth]

So this one goes out to you educated metalheads who has been around for a while. Make a list of every year from 1980 to 2010 and write which album you think is the best of that year. Here's a template for you

1980 "" 1990 "" 2000 "" 2010 "insert album title here"
1981 "" 1991 "" 2001 ""
1982 "" 1992 "" 2002 ""
1983 "" 1993 "" 2003 ""
1984 "" 1994 "" 2004 ""
1985 "" 1995 "" 2005 ""
1986 "" 1996 "" 2006 ""
1987 "" 1997 "" 2007 ""
1988 "" 1998 "" 2008 ""
1989 "" 1999 "" 2009 ""

I understand if you think this is boring and unnecessary but I at least think it would be interesting to see what you guy's think

 

[D.Ingram]

1980: Motorhead - Ace of Spades
1981: Venom - Welcome to Hell
1982: Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1983: Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
1984: Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
1985: Razor - Evil Invaders
1986: Onslaught - The Force
1987: Possessed - The Eyes of Horror
1988: Psychic Possessor - Toxin Diffusion
1989: Terrorizer - World Downfall
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Protector - A Shedding of Skin
1992: Demolition hammer - Epidemic of Violence
1993: Asphyx - Last One On Earth
1994: Epidemic - Exit Paradise
1995: Coroner - Coroner
1996: Torque - Torque
1997: Malevolent Creation - In Cold Blood
1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance
1999: Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
2000: Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose
2001: Sodom - M16
2002: Entombed - Morning Star
2003: Sleep - Dopesmoker
2004: Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
2005: Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
2006: Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
2007: Onslaught - Killing Peace
2008: Cannabis Corpse - Tube of the Resinated
2009: Evile - Infected Nations
2010: Sodom - In War And Pieces

Obviously it's really, really difficult to chose just one album per year but those're my current favourites from each.

 

[Keenan]

1980 : Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
1981 : Rush - Moving Pictures (The only '81 album I have)
1982 : Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1983 : Dio - Holy Diver
1984 : Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985 : Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
1986 : Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987 : Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1988 : Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989 : Atheist - Piece of Time
1990 : Forbidden - Twisted into Form
1991 : Death - Human
1992 : Dream Theater - Images and Words
1993 : Death - Individual Thought Patterns
1994 : Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
1995 : Death - Symbolic
1996 : Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
1997 : Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity (Its admittedly not that good, but its the only one I have. )
1998 : Death - The Sound of Perseverance
1999 : Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
2000 : Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (Shush. All of you.)
2001 : Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002 : Dream Theater - Six Degrees on Inner Turbulence
2003 : Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
2004 : Mastodon - Leviathan
2005 : Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
2006 : Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
2007 : Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Pt.1
2008 : Opeth - Watershed
2009 : Evile - Infected Nations
2010 : Ihsahn - After


Yeah, I just noticed that alot of my music info is jacked up.... Stupid remasters.... Anyways, yeah, that's my list.

 

[metallica144]

no enter the grave?

anyway, i'm not going to fill in this list, i'm too lazy

 

[D.Ingram]

Enter the Grave is brilliant, but Killing Peace was brilliant-er

 

[metallica144]

fuck it, i'll do it


1980 : -
1981 : -
1982 : Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
1983 : Metallica - Kill 'Em All
1984 : Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985 : -
1986 : Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987 : -
1988 : Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989 : -
1990 : Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1991 : Metallica - The Black Album
1992 : Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
1993 : -
1994 : Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
1995 : -
1996 : Sepultura - Roots
1997 : Machine Head - The More Things Change...
1998 : -
1999 : Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
2000 : Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
2001 : System of A Down - Toxicity
2002 : -
2003 : Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
2004 : Behemoth - Demigod
2005 : Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
2006 : Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
2007 : Machine Head - The Blackening
2008 : CARACH ANGEREN - LAMMENDAM!
2009 : Evile - Infected Nations
2010 : Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship

here you go,

 

[metallica144]

Enter the Grave is brilliant, but Killing Peace was brilliant-er

i had to choose between ETG and The Blackening, and as much as i love Evile, The Blackening was an easy choice

* activates flameshield*

 

[Keenan]

As much as I love Enter the Grave, Watershed is an album that means more to me personally. Although, the one thing it reminded me of, I now try to forget sooo.....

 

[D.Ingram]

I went apeshit over The Blackening upon it's release, but after listening to it for 6 months I realised how overtly full of shit it is.

 

[MetallicSlayerDeth]

I would never be able to construct such a list mostly cuz there would e a lot of blanks but I know I actually have to put Black future in right before Infected Nations. Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna prepare my rape-shield

 

[metallica144]

well, i've chosen Infected Nation, but Behemoth - Evangelion and Muse - The Resistance are close behind

 

[metallica144]

I went apeshit over The Blackening upon it's release, but after listening to it for 6 months I realised how overtly full of shit it is.

that day still hasn't come for me yet i still think it's a brilliant album

 

[D.Ingram]

Reusing riffs that're up to 20 years old, retreading old ground, claiming that it's a progressive thrash masterpiece and on a similar note, suddenly claiming that it's thrash when in the past Robb claimed MH were never a thrash band... well, it didn't bode well. Listening to it now, most of the songs haven't aged gracefully in 3 years - only A Farewell to Arms and Wolves really hold my interest anymore (I'll admit, Wolves is incredible). The fact that they had the guts to big it up as "the thrash metal equivilant to Pink Floyd's "The Wall"" made me laugh my tits off even back then, since it's not thrash and isn't quite as progressive as everybody has made it out to be - No More Color, Mental Vortex and even Black Future are more deserving of such a generic tag.

On the reusing riffs thing, I'm probably the only person who noticed half of them - but for an easy one, listen to the solo section in Aesthetics of Hate and then the ending to Forbidden Evil by Forbidden, it's almost identical. And Forbidden Evil was written 22 years beforehand. Top that off with the pre-chorus riff to Clenching the Fists of Dissent being exactly the same riff to technocracy's How We Die from 2001 and I was laughing my bollocks off - they abuse old riffs almost as much as dave Mustaine.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Machine Head's first two albums, a bunch of stuff from The Burning Red and Supercharger and Through the Ashes of Empires is great too. But The Blackening is nothing more than a big joke to me these days.

 

[Keenan]

I think its a good album, but just GOOD. Nothing more than that. Don't we have a topic about this actually?


I realized earlier while making my list that most of my music has been released within the last five years, but that's including the ones with wrong dates.... I need more old music.

 

[Vedicardi]

I went apeshit over The Blackening upon it's release, but after listening to it for 6 months I realised how overtly full of shit it is.

same with me, but it only took a week instead of 6 months

 

[metallica144]

Reusing riffs that're up to 20 years old, retreading old ground, claiming that it's a progressive thrash masterpiece and on a similar note, suddenly claiming that it's thrash when in the past Robb claimed MH were never a thrash band... well, it didn't bode well. Listening to it now, most of the songs haven't aged gracefully in 3 years - only A Farewell to Arms and Wolves really hold my interest anymore (I'll admit, Wolves is incredible). The fact that they had the guts to big it up as "the thrash metal equivilant to Pink Floyd's "The Wall"" made me laugh my tits off even back then, since it's not thrash and isn't quite as progressive as everybody has made it out to be - No More Color, Mental Vortex and even Black Future are more deserving of such a generic tag.

On the reusing riffs thing, I'm probably the only person who noticed half of them - but for an easy one, listen to the solo section in Aesthetics of Hate and then the ending to Forbidden Evil by Forbidden, it's almost identical. And Forbidden Evil was written 22 years beforehand. Top that off with the pre-chorus riff to Clenching the Fists of Dissent being exactly the same riff to technocracy's How We Die from 2001 and I was laughing my bollocks off - they abuse old riffs almost as much as dave Mustaine.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Machine Head's first two albums, a bunch of stuff from The Burning Red and Supercharger and Through the Ashes of Empires is great too. But The Blackening is nothing more than a big joke to me these days.

i knew that about ''aesthetics of hate'' vs '' Forbidden Evil'', because that was posted in the '' music that sounds like other music'' thread. and if it's only 1 riff in clenching the fists of dissent and that part in aesthetics of hate, then what's the problem? or are there more riffs that are similar to others?

and maybe there are some riffs that sounds like other riffs that are like 20 years old, i think it's also pretty cool that machine head was able to make 10+ minutes songs interesting.

 

[D.Ingram]

Razor made 10 minutes ongs interesting 20 years before Machine Head did. 10 minutes long thrash/metal songs are nothing new.

 

[metallica144]

i'm not saying it's new, i'm saying that i think it's quite awesome, i mean, there are those songs which seem to last forever and which can't keep me interested. this is actually not the case with any of the 9/10 minute songs on The Blackening.

end of discussion, because it won't bring us anywhere

 

[D.Ingram]

Enter the Grave was still better

 

[metallicdistort]

1980 : Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1981 : Iron Maiden - Killers
1982 : Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1983 : Metallica - Kill Em All
1984 : Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985 : The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1986 : Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987 : Anthrax - Among The Living
1988 : Metallica - ...And Justice for All
1989 : The Cure - Disintegration
1990 : Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
1991 : Kyuss - Wretch
1992 : Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
1993 : Sepultura - Chaos AD
1994 : Godflesh - Selfless
1995 : Down - NOLA
1996 : Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate
1997 : Godflesh - Love And Hate In Dub
1998 : Iron Monkey - Our Problem
1999 : Rage Against The Machine - The Battle For Los Angeles
2000 : Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2001 : Bolt Thrower - Honour - Valour - Pride
2002 : Isis - Oceanic
2003 : Akercocke - Choronzon
2004 : Electric Wizard - We Live
2005 : Napalm Death - The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code
2006 : Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men
2007 : Evile - Enter The Grave
2008 : Venomous Concept - Poisoned Apple
2009 : Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
2010 : Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition

Probably forgotten about a few favourites, but oh well