The Best METAL Album Of Every Year (1970-2024)

[BradleyHallGuitar]

What do you guys think of my picks?? I tried to be as objective as possible, with my personal opinion only influencing things a tiny bit

[RCSmiths]

Seeing Rainbow and Dio here truly puts a smile on my face. There is so many things extremely Metal about Dio's presence in his prime, which is just his entire musical career haha. I also think that the 2000s and 2010s just had so much great material to work from, and I can't wait to see how the 20s work off of such a foundation.

[lukasz.]

King Crimson's "Red" - one of the best records in general. Simply amazing.

[IaMD.B.]

1980 had many all time great albums:

Blizzard of Oz - Ozzy Osbourne
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
British Steel - Judas Priest
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Wheels of Steel - Saxon
Lightning to the Nations - Diamond Head

I'm sure I missed a few. Really hard to pick a winner here!

[eamonahern]

I love that you picked Individual Thought Patterns for 1993. If you picked any of Reign In Blood, Master Of Puppets, Peace Sells or Somewhere In Time for 1986 I would have been satisfied with that pick. I expected Sad Wings Of Destiny to be in there but Rainbow is a good choice anyway.

[SpacemanXC]

Can't say I really agree with much of this. But that's the beauty of metal. There's something for everyone. 🤘

[Yourlocalbrazilianfemboy]

98 Should be Sound of perseverance tho

[planetsabbath]

Songs:

1970: Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
1971: Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
1972: Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
1973: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1974: King Crimson - Red
1975: Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
1976: Rainbow - Tarot Woman
1977: Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor
1978: Rainbow - Gates of Babylon
1979: Motorhead - Overkill
1980: Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
1981: Rush - Limelight
1982: Iron Maiden - The Prisoner
1983: Dio - Straight Through the Heart
1984: Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
1985: Anthrax - A.I.R.
1986: Metallica - Disposable Heroes
1987: Cacophony - Desert Island
1988: Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
1989: Morbid Angel - Chapel of Ghouls
1990: Megadeth - Poison Was the Cure
1991: Metallica - Of Wolf and Man
1992: Pantera - Mouth For War
1993: Death - The Philosopher
1994: Emperor - Inno A Satana
1995: At The Gates - Under A Serpent Sun
1996: Pantera - Floods
1997: Strapping Young Lad - Oh My Fucking God
1998: Blind Guardian - Mirror Mirror
1999: Dream Theater - Beyond This Life (Scene IV)
2000: Iron Maiden - Out of the Silent Planet
2001: System of a Down - Shimmy
2002: Symphony X - Accolade II
2003: Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
2004: Mastodon - Hearts Alive
2005: Opeth - The Grand Conjuration
2006: Mastodon - Sleeping Giant
2007: Avenged Sevenfold - Lost
2008: Meshuggah - Combustion
2009: The Devin Townsend Project - Supercrush!
2010: Avenged Sevenfold - Welcome To the Family
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Cattle Decapitation - Kingdom of Tyrants
2013: Deafheaven - Sunbather
2014: Behemoth - Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
2015: Ghost - He Is
2016: Vektor - Charging the Void
2017: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
2018: Ghost - Dance Macabre
2019: Periphery - Blood Eagle
2020: Code Orange - Swallowing the Rabbit Whole
2021: Spiritbox - Holy Roller
2022: Imperial Triumphant - Tower of Glory, City of Shame
2023: Avenged Sevenfold - Mattel

[AndyVasilev]

Not having From Mars to Sirius for 05 and TWOAF for 08 is pure madness

[CliveHandth]

the beauty of metal is that there’s always something for everyone, glad we’ve got a big metal family community, love you guys :)

[paulvulcano]

Happy to see Nightfall by Blind Guardian, you really nail it 🤘

[J.PC.Designs]

Leviathan is genuinely one of the absolute best records I will ever listen to.

[andreshermosilla]

Glad to see some respect con Blind Guardian and Symphony X. Incredible albums

[dagobertoantonioalbornozra]

Y love Cacophony¡, but in 1987 for me is Keeper of the seventh keys, Helloween

[lizzythefrank]

Having Terminal Redux on here is such a great choice! Glad to see such an underrated masterpiece given credit

[picklesandwich]

Metal is such a diverse and awesome genre that you could pick like 20 different albums for each year, awesome time to be a metal fan with new awesome bands on the horizon while most of the classic bands like megadeth, maiden etc are still around releasing bangers

[Goat.phomator]

The creator of this video obviously likes Power Metal 😂

[peterdavies]

1990 is tricky as you have ' Painkiller ' as well as ' Rust in peace '

[jonjones]

Late '90s through the mid 2000s were so great with bands like COB, In Flames, KSE, Symphony X, LOG, Nevermore, Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, etc. hitting their peaks.

[SolarGlu]

1999 - Still Life - Opeth
2009 - Crack The Skye - Mastodon
2005 - FMTS - Gojira