Heavy Metal is 50 Years Old
My revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Rainbow – “Rising”
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Green Carnation – “Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness”
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Wolves In The Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Alice In Chains – “Black Gives Way To Blue”
2010: Hate – “Erebos”
2011: Esoteric – “Paragon Of Dissonance”
2012: Gaza – “No Absolutes In Human Suffering”
2013: Suffocation – “Pinnacle Of Bedlam”
Update on my list (due to a 3-year extension of my metal taste range):
Classic oldies:
1987: Coroner - R.I.P.
1988: Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
1989: Annihilator - Alice in Hell
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Coroner - Mental Vortex
1992: Neurosis - Souls at Zero
1993: Sentenced - North From Here
1994: Tiamat - Wildhoney
1995: My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
Old-school but newer:
1996: Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
1997: HIM - Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 (though not metal)
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: In Flames - Clayman
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002: Isis - Oceanic
2003: Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation
2004: Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Higher original quality:
2005: Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2006: Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
2007: Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2008: After the Burial - Rareform
2009: Vektor - Black Future
2010: Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2013: The Ocean - Pelagial
New and improved:
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Septicflesh - Codex Omega
2018: Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
2019: Coldrain - The Side Effects
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2020 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
My Dying Bride - Macabre Cabaret (EP)
Within the Ruins - Black Heart
Update on my list (due to an extension of my metal year taste range):
Late 1970s/1980s (classic oldies):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in a separate thread reply)
1979: Accept - Accept
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Accept - Restless and Wild
1983: Accept - Balls to the Wall
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Accept - Metal Heart
1986: Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr
1987: Voivod - Killing Technology
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Godflesh - Streetcleaner
1990s (old-school but newer):
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Coroner - Mental Vortex
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: Sentenced - North From Here
1994: Tiamat - Wildhoney
1995: My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
1996: Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
1997: Strapping Young Lad - City
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000s (higher original quality):
2000: In Flames - Clayman
2001: Devin Townsend - Terria
2002: Isis - Oceanic
2003: Enslaved - Below the Lights
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
2006: Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
2007: Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2008: KYPCK - Черно
2009: Vektor - Black Future
2010s (new and improved):
2010: Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
2013: The Ocean - Pelagial
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Septicflesh - Codex Omega
2018: Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
2019: Grand Magus - Wolf God
2020s (the newest and greatest to make up for the worst of the world):
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021 (so far): Cult of Luna - The Raging River
2021 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Bodom After Midnight - Paint the Sky with Blood (EP) (as a last goodbye to Alexi Laiho, RIP)
Gojira - Fortitude
My revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Rainbow – “Rising”
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Wolves In The Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Alice In Chains – “Black Gives Way To Blue”
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach: Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Mgla - "Exercise In Futility"
2016: Leprous - "Live At Rockefeller Music Hall"
Update on my list (I'll update when I listen to some more of the bands whose albums were recently recommended to me):
Late 1970s/1980s (classic oldies):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Accept - Accept
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Accept - Restless and Wild
1983: Accept - Balls to the Wall
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Accept - Metal Heart
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Voivod - Killing Technology
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
1990s (old-school but newer):
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Coroner - Mental Vortex
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
1994: Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
1995: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part II
1996: Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
1997: Strapping Young Lad - City
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000s (higher original quality):
2000: Isis - Celestial
2001: Dolorian - Dolorian
2002: Isis - Oceanic
2003: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
2006: Persuader - When Eden Burns
2007: Annihilator - Metal
2008: Grand Magus - Iron Will
2009: Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
2010s (new and improved):
2010: Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
2013: Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Enslaved - E
2018: Voivod - The Wake
2019: Grand Magus - Wolf God
2020s (the newest and greatest to make up for the worst of the world):
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021 (first half): Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
2021 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Born of Osiris - Angel or Alien
Attila - Closure
Well, I guess it's time for an update on my list:
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head
1973: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1974: Budgie - In for the Kill
1975: Black Sabbath - Sabotage
1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
1977: Motörhead - Motörhead
1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class
1979: Motörhead - Bomber
1980: Angel Witch - Angel Witch
1981: Iron Maiden - Killers
1982: Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
1983: Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1984: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
1985: Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
1986: Slayer - Reign in Blood
1987: Candlemass - Nightfall
1988: Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
1989: Terrorizer - World Downfall
1990: Winter - Into Darkness
1991: Autopsy - Mental Funeral
1992: Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky
1993: Rippikoulu - Musta seremonia
1994: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
1995: Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
1996: Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power
1997: Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory
1998: Solstice - New Dark Age
1999: Opeth - Still Life
2000: Immortal - Damned in Black
2001: Evoken - Quietus
2002: Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
2003: Monolithe - Monolithe I
2004: Nehëmah - Requiem Tenebrae
2005: Tyranny - Tides of Awakening
2006: Warning - Watching From a Distance
2007: WitTR - Two Hunters
2008: Winterfylleth - The Ghost of Heritage
2009: Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
2010: Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
2011: Disma - Towards the Megalith
2012: Panopticon - Kentucky
2013: Subrosa - More Constant Than the Gods
2014: Saor - Aura
2015: Kauan - Sorni Nai
2016: Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
2017: Venenum - Trance of Death
2018: Yith - Immemorial
2019: Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
2020: MSW - Obliviosus
I know it seems like a lot of changes, but I am a notoriously unreliable narrator!
Update on my list (now in different "ages" based on my opinion, might update later):
Beginning oldies (1978-1992):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Virgin Steele - Guardians of the Flame
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Accept - Metal Heart
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Voivod - Killing Technology
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
The golden classics (1993-2002):
1993: Savatage - Edge of Thorns
1994: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
1995: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part II
1996: Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
1997: Strapping Young Lad - City
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
2001: Dolorian - Dolorian
2002: Isis - Oceanic
The silver guiding lights (2003-2012):
2003: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
2006: Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die
2007: Annihilator - Metal
2008: Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2009: Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
2010: Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
The bronze yet still great new (2013-2019):
2013: Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Voivod - The Wake
2019: Grand Magus - Wolf God
The newest to make up for the worst of the world (2020-present):
2020: Cryptic Shift - Visitations from Enceladus
2021 (so far): Born of Osiris - Angel or Alien
Albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Attila - Closure
Between the Buried and Me - Colors II (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Leprous - Aphelion
Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream: Welcome to Horrorwood
Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Post #3709
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Wolves In The Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Ulcerate - "Everything Is Fire"
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Saxon - "Thunderbolt"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Nekromantheon - "Visions Of Trismegistos"
Update on my list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1992):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
The golden classics (1993-2002):
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: X Japan - Dahlia
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Devin Townsend - Terria
2002: Isis - Oceanic
The silver guiding lights (2003-2012):
2003: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
2006: Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime II
2007: Annihilator - Metal
2008: Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2009: Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
2010: Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Devin Townsend - Epicloud
The bronze yet still great new (2013-2019):
2013: Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Voivod - The Wake
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
The newest to make up for the worst of the world (2020-present):
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021 (so far): Born of Osiris - Angel or Alien
Albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Between the Buried and Me - Colors II (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Leprous - Aphelion
Rivers of Nihil - The Work (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Enslaved - Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)
Katatonia - Mnemosynean (compilation album)
Devin Townsend - The Puzzle/Snuggles
Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream: Welcome to Horrorwood
Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Running Wild - Blood on Blood
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Wolves In The Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Ulcerate - "Everything Is Fire"
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Saxon - "Thunderbolt"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Altarage - "Succumb"
Update on my list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1992):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
1990: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
The golden classics (1993-2002):
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: Samael - Passage
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
2002: Isis - Oceanic
The silver guiding lights (2003-2012):
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
2006: Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime II
2007: Annihilator - Metal
2008: Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2009: Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
2010: Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Devin Townsend - Epicloud
The bronze yet still great new (2013-2019):
2013: Bring Me the Horizon - Sempiternal
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Voivod - The Wake
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
The newest to make up for the worst of the world (2020-present):
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021 (so far): Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
Albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Rivers of Nihil - The Work (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Enslaved - Caravans to the Outer Worlds (EP)
Katatonia - Mnemosynean (compilation album)
Devin Townsend - The Puzzle/Snuggles
Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
Ice Nine Kills - The Silver Scream: Welcome to Horrorwood
Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Bad Wolves - Dear Monsters (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Running Wild - Blood on Blood
Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Wolves In The Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Saxon - "Thunderbolt"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Altarage - "Succumb"
Update on my list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1992):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
The golden classics (1993-2002):
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: Samael - Passage
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
2002: Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
The silver guiding lights (2003-2012):
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2004: Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
2006: Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime II
2007: Annihilator - Metal
2008: Dir En Grey - Uroboros
2009: Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
2010: Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Devin Townsend - Epicloud
The bronze yet still great new (2013-2019):
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Voivod - The Wake
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
The newest to make up for the worst of the world (2020-present):
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021 (so far): Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
2021 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Bad Wolves - Dear Monsters (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Running Wild - Blood on Blood
Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Silent Planet - Iridescent (self-recommendation)
Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I
Cynic - Ascension Codes (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Rhapsody of Fire - Glory for Salvation (slight return to listening to that band for this album)
Devin Townsend - The Puzzle/Snuggles
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Saxon - "Thunderbolt"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Altarage - "Succumb"
Before we get to my latest list update, I would like to point out an early hint for next month's Revolution Spotify playlist that I'm assembling. I tend to focus on the years when all of the Revolution genres/subgenres are existent. Sure there are great classics in the genres that have been around since before 2006, but I didn't want some of the genres to feel left out. Still I can sneak add a few tracks from as early as the late 90s (I haven't forgotten about your Cold as Life track suggestion, Daniel), kind of like some bands who are formed 30 years ago, but choose to mainly play songs live from as early as 2006, with one or a few throwback tracks as early as 1998. With all that said, I'm going to try categorizing the different metal eras again, this time to suit the different eras of The Revolution genres. So here's my updated list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
Old golden classics (1990-1997)/Humble metalcore beginnings:
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Millennium transition highlights (1998-2005)/Light of day-seeing metalcore classics:
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Converge - Jane Doe
2002: Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
Modern favorites (2006-2013)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2006: Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
2007: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
2008: Textures - Silhouettes
2009: August Burns Red - Constellations
2010: Motionless in White - Creatures
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
The best of the most recent (2014-2021)/A greater new uprising:
2014: Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
2015: Bullet for My Valentine - Venom
2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Silent Planet - When the End Began
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
With the last third of 2021 being filled with the greatest amount of amazing new releases to end that year, that also marks the grand ending to that 8-year phase in my opinion, with this year 2022 possibly starting a new one.
2022 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Underoath - Voyeurist
Persefone - Metanoia
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Annihilator - Metal II (nearly entire re-recording of their Metal album)
Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: The Gathering - "Nighttime Birds"
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: The Amenta - "Flesh Is Heir"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Messa - "Feast For Water"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Fange - "Pantocrator"
Here's my updated list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
Old golden classics (1990-1997)/Humble metalcore beginnings:
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Millennium transition highlights (1998-2005)/Light of day-seeing metalcore classics:
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Converge - Jane Doe
2002: Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
Modern favorites (2006-2013)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2006: Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
2007: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
2008: Textures - Silhouettes
2009: August Burns Red - Constellations
2010: Attack Attack! - Attack Attack!
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
The best of the most recent (2014-2021)/A greater new uprising:
2014: Structures - Life Through a Window
2015: Wage War - Blueprints
2016: Car Bomb - Meta
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Silent Planet - When the End Began
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
With the last third of 2021 being filled with the greatest amount of amazing new releases to end that year, that also marks the grand ending to that 8-year phase in my opinion, with this year 2022 possibly starting a new one.
2022 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Underoath - Voyeurist
Persefone - Metanoia
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Annihilator - Metal II (nearly entire re-recording of their Metal album)
Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia
Meshuggah - Immutable
Memphis May Fire - Remade in Misery
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: The Gathering - "Nighttime Birds"
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: 7 Horns 7 Eyes - "Throes Of Absolution" (2012)
2013: The Amenta - "Flesh Is Heir"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Messa - "Feast For Water"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Fange - "Pantocrator"
Here's my updated list:
Beginning oldies (1978-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1978: Riot - Rock City (yes I know, everyone says the year is 1977, but I don't quite suspect that as its true release year, more info about that in this separate thread reply: https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/362#topic_6048)
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Virgin Steele - Virgin Steele
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Riot - Thundersteel
1989: Running Wild - Death or Glory
Old golden classics (1990-1997)/Humble metalcore beginnings:
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: X Japan - Art of Life
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
1996: Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
1997: Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Millennium transition highlights (1998-2005)/Light of day-seeing metalcore classics:
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Botch - We are the Romans
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Converge - Jane Doe
2002: Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
2003: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
Modern favorites (2006-2013)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2006: Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
2007: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
2008: Textures - Silhouettes
2009: August Burns Red - Constellations
2010: Attack Attack! - Attack Attack!
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise: Illusion and Chaos
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
The best of the most recent (2014-2021)/A greater new uprising:
2014: Structures - Life Through a Window
2015: Wage War - Blueprints
2016: Car Bomb - Meta
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Silent Planet - When the End Began
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
2020: Trivium - What the Dead Men Say
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
The promising present (2022 onwards)/metalcore revival (thanks to Underoath)?:
2022 (so far): Battle Beast - Circus of Doom
2022 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Persefone - Metanoia
Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Annihilator - Metal II (nearly entire re-recording of their Metal album)
Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia
Meshuggah - Immutable
Memphis May Fire - Remade in Misery
Halestorm - Back From the Dead
Three Days Grace - Explosions
Note: the latter two bands are not metal, but felt like taking a small return to my pre-metal alt-rock past.
Here's my updated list:
Beginning oldies (1979-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1979: Accept - Accept
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Accept - Restless and Wild
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Queensryche - The Warning
1985: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
1986: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Fates Warning - No Exit
1989: Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Old golden classics (1990-1997)/Humble metalcore beginnings:
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: Savatage - Edge of Thorns
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
1996: Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
1997: Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Millennium transition highlights (1998-2005)/Light of day-seeing metalcore classics:
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Opeth - Still Life
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002: Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
2003: Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
Modern favorites (2006-2013)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2006: Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
2007: Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies
2008: Textures - Silhouettes
2009: August Burns Red - Constellations
2010: Attack Attack! - Attack Attack!
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
The best of the most recent (2014-2021)/A greater new uprising:
2014: Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
2015: Wage War - Blueprints
2016: Car Bomb - Meta
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Vein - Errorzone
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
2020: Code Orange - Underneath
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
The promising present (2022 onwards)/metalcore revival (thanks to Underoath)?:
2022 (so far): Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
2022 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia
Meshuggah - Immutable
Memphis May Fire - Remade in Misery
Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World
Seventh Wonder - The Testament
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: The Gathering - "Nighttime Birds"
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: 7 Horns 7 Eyes - "Throes Of Absolution" (2012)
2013: The Amenta - "Flesh Is Heir"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Infernal Coil - "Within A World Forgotten"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Fange - "Pantocrator"
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: The Gathering - "Nighttime Birds"
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind"
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: 7 Horns 7 Eyes - "Throes Of Absolution"
2013: The Amenta - "Flesh Is Heir"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: The Ruins Of Beverast - "Exuvia"
2018: Infernal Coil - "Within A World Forgotten"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Fange - "Pantocrator"
Ok, so I have taken weeks to do this and I have found this actually useful considering my usual aversion to lists in general. What it shows me more than anything are the gaps, so on the years where I see some albums (bear in mind this list is based entirely what I own in one format or another) I have listed as the best release I instantly see scope to delve further into that year as I genuinely cannot believe that 2002 was topped by Tsjuder. However, I have been honest and put in an entry for each year.
1970 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1971 Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1972 Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
1973 Hawkwind - The Space Ritual Alive
1974 Kiss - s/t
1975 Black Sabbath - Sabotage
1976 Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
1977 Motorhead - s/t
1978 Judas Priest - Stained Class
1979 Motorhead - Overkill
1980 Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
1981 Iron Maiden - Killers
1982 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
1983 Metallica - Kill 'Em All
1984 Metallica - Ride The Lightning
1985 Iron Maiden - Live After Death
1986 Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
1987 Death - Scream Bloody Gore
1988 Metallica - …And Justice For All
1989 Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
1990 Obituary - Cause of death
1991 Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
1992 Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
1993 Burzum - Det som engang var
1994 Mayhem - De mysteriis dom sathanas
1995 Suffocation - Pierced from Within
1996 Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
1997 Borknagar -The Olden Domain
1998 Death - Sound of Perseverance
1999 Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
2000 Immolation - Close To A World Below
2001 Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002 Tsjuder - Demonic Possession
2003 Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
2004 Horna - split w/ Behexen
2005 Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2006 Drudkh - Blood In Our Wells
2007 WITTR - Two Hunters
2008 Darkspace - Dark Space III
2009 Drudkh - Microcosmos
2010 Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
2011 Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
2012 Panopticon - Kentucky
2013 Gorguts - Colored Sands
2014 Varathron - Untrodden Corridors of Hades
2015 Akhlys - The Dreaming I
2016 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis
2017 Condor - Unstoppable Power
2018 Winterfylleth - The Harrowing of Heirdom
2019 Overkill - The Wings of War
2020 Akhlys - Melinoë
2021 Altarage - Succubus
Here's my updated list:
Beginning oldies (1979-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1979: Accept - Accept
1980: Accept - I'm a Rebel
1981: Accept - Breaker
1982: Accept - Restless and Wild
1983: Savatage - Sirens
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Accept - Metal Heart
1986: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
1987: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
1988: Sadus - Illusions
1989: Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Old golden classics (1990-1997)/Humble metalcore beginnings:
1990: Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
1991: Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: Savatage - Edge of Thorns
1994: Savatage - Handful of Rain
1995: Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
1996: Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
1997: Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Millennium transition highlights (1998-2005)/Light of day-seeing metalcore classics:
1998: Meshuggah - Chaosphere
1999: Opeth - Still Life
2000: Skycamefalling - 10.21
2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park
2002: Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
2003: Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
2004: Wuthering Heights - Far From the Madding Crowd
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
Modern favorites (2006-2013)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2006: Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet
2007: Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
2008: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide and Its Takers
2009: Asking Alexandria - Stand Up and Scream
2010: Chelsea Grin - Desolation of Eden
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give
2013: We Came as Romans - Tracing Back Roots
The best of the most recent (2014-2021)/A greater new uprising:
2014: The Ghost Inside - Dear Youth
2015: Wage War - Blueprints
2016: Car Bomb - Meta
2017: Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence
2018: Crystal Lake - Helix
2019: Devin Townsend - Empath
2020: Like Moths to Flames - No Eternity in Gold
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
The promising present (2022 onwards)/metalcore revival (thanks to Underoath)?:
2022 (so far): Cult of Luna - The Long Road North
2022 albums I'm looking forward to getting:
Upon a Burning Body - Fury
Memphis May Fire - Remade in Misery
Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World
Seventh Wonder - The Testament
Dir En Grey - Phalaris
Coldrain - Nonnegative