Your "Album of the Year" for the Past Five Years or So

[S<issors]

There needs to be a high-five smiley.

It's obviously a combined clone of Burzum, Darkthrone and Ildjarn just like every other black metal band, actually.

Also am I the only one who thinks that sounds AWESOME?

 

[Alter]

THAN LISTEN TO WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM!

 

[S<issors]

I'm going to, right now, to make sure Two Hunter didn't suddenly become a minimalist/atmospheric crust punk masterpiece out of Norway.

 

[Omni]

It also have to be recorded on the cheapest answering machine and feature 30 or so 2-minute songs that all sound intentionally the same.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Huh? SMRC is black metal. So is NB's "Om." I'm confused.

Yeah, I think I worded that wrong. What I meant was that I've heard the abbreviation before & I knew it was a black metal album. It was on the tip of my tongue. I found a great rip of that album online & I've been listening to the whole thing a lot the last few days & I'm really digging it. It took me a long time to really check Deathspell out like this, & I'm pissed I've been missing out like this.

 

[S<issors]

yeah dso are pretty great

 

[Woolie Wool]

Most of my favorite albums are from the late '70s through the early '90s, but here's my list of albums of the year produced after the Great Grunge Holocaust:

1991: Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
1992: Dream Theater - Images and Words
1993: None that I can think of off the top of my head qualify.
1994: Dream Theater - Awake
1995: Tie between Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia and Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
1996: Symphony X - The Damnation Game
1997: Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
1998: Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
1999: Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 2
2000: Iron Maiden - Brave New World
2001: Emperor - Prometheus : The Discipline of Fire and Demise
2002: Tie between Symphony X - The Odyssey and Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
2003: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
2004: Therion - Lemuria
2005: Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
2006: Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
2007: Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

And as for the golden age, why not:

1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
1977: Judas Priest - Sin after Sin
1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class (Hat trick!)
1979: Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
1981: Iron Maiden - Killers
1982: Accept - Restless and Wild
1983: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
1987: Heathen - Breaking the Silence
1988: Three-way tie between Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Toxik - World Circus, and Realm - Endless War
1989: Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace

 

[The Ozzman]

Add Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages/DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words for best metal album of 2007. :Smug:

Fixed

 

[S<issors]

'twas a WITTR-thread related comment, Ozz. Of course his REAL favorite is Deathevokation!

 

[Nokturnal1228]

I was just thinking the past year or so ago, but have many favorites from each year, favorite in bold.

2008: The Arcane Order -- In The Wake Of Collisions, Arsis -- We Are The Nightmare, Equilibrium -- Sagas, Origin -- Antithesis, Scar Symmetry -- Holographic Universe, Warrel Dane -- Praises To The War Machine

2007: Behemoth -- The Apostasy, Benighted -- Icon, The Black Dahlia Murder -- Nocturnal, Ensiferum -- Victory Songs, Le Grand Guignol -- The Great Maddening, Nile -- Ithyphallic, Trauma -- Neurotic Mass

 

[Nokturnal1228]

and definitely abigor's fractal possession in 2007. such a weird but successful turn for them.

 

[rfe]

Funeral - From These Wounds (Top favorite of all time, actually)
Grave - As Rapture Comes
Aborted - Goremageddon
Sybreed - Antares
Goretrade - Ritual of Flesh
Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Dark Tranquillity - Character

And old school:

Entombed - Left Hand Path
Carnage - Dark Recollections
At The Gates - Gardens of Grief
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos, For Victory
Strapping Young Lad - City
Hypocrisy - Osculum, Abducted

 

[Alter]

Fixed

haha Devildriver is terrible.

I was just thinking the past year or so ago, but have many favorites from each year, favorite in bold.

2008: The Arcane Order -- In The Wake Of Collisions, Arsis -- We Are The Nightmare, Equilibrium -- Sagas, Origin -- Antithesis, Scar Symmetry -- Holographic Universe, Warrel Dane -- Praises To The War Machine

2007: Behemoth -- The Apostasy, Benighted -- Icon, The Black Dahlia Murder -- Nocturnal, Ensiferum -- Victory Songs, Le Grand Guignol -- The Great Maddening, Nile -- Ithyphallic, Trauma -- Neurotic Mass

Origin's new record was really fucking good but ddid not stay on my best of 2008 list for very long.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Ithyphallic was good but lagged too much.

 

[chuj666]

anything by Dismember