Best Metal album from each year

TakinTheMusicBack said:
Originally posted by yourself, Profanity, in the Maiden forum:

"Maiden have always been Soft Metal but Dance Of Death isn't even that, Dance Of Death is Hard Rock.

Maiden are slowly getting softer. Here is their timeline of Genres:
1980-1983-Metal
1984-Soft Metal
1986-Metal
1988-Hard Rock
1990-2000-Soft Metal
2003-Hard Rock

predicted
2003-2008-Hard Rock
2009-2012-Rock
2013-2016-Easy Listening
2016-Disband"

:Smug:

God... He really is a tool isn't he?!
 
Everyone seems to have forgotten albums by Machine Head, Sepultura, Opeth, Fear Factory, Anthrax, In Flames, and At The Gates.

89 Beneath the Remains - Sepultura

90 Persistence Of Time - 'Thrax

94 Burn My Eyes - Machine Head

95 Demanufacture/Slaughter Of The Soul - FF/ATG

96 Morningrise - Opeth

97 Whoracle - IF

98 MAYH/Obsolete - Opeth/FF
 
1970 - 1989: no preference, I almost unanimously abhor 80s metal with very few exceptions and the ones I do like I only partially like.

1990: Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
1991: Paradise Lost - Gothic
1992: My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers
1993: Anathema - Serenades
1994: My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
1995: Anathema - The Silent Enigma
1996: Opeth - Morningrise
1997: Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
1998: My Dying Bride - 34.788% Complete
1999: Solefald - Neonism
2000: November's Doom - The Knowing
2001: maudlin of the Well - Bath + Leaving Your Body Map
2002: Agalloch - The Mantle
2003: Solefald - In Harmonia Universali