AOTY 1965-2017, m/ Edition
Everyone else is doing it and I'm a big gay slave to trends sorry the first like 10 entries are the Beatles but I don't listen to music from the 60s it was a rough time for me |
1 | | The Beatles Rubber Soul
1965 |
2 | | The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
1966 |
3 | | The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
1967 |
4 | | The Beatles The Beatles
1968 only album from this year lel |
5 | | The Beatles Abbey Road
1969 |
6 | | Black Sabbath Paranoid
1970 |
7 | | Genesis Nursery Cryme
1971
Honorable mentions: Hunky Dory, Fragile, In Search of Space |
8 | | David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1972
Honorable mentions: Close to the Edge, Foxtrot |
9 | | Genesis Selling England by the Pound
1973
Honorable mentions: New York Dolls, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
10 | | Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill
1974
Honorable mention: Autobahn |
11 | | Patti Smith Horses
1975
Honorable mentions: Mothership Connection, Ritchie Blackmoore's Rainbow |
12 | | Rainbow Rising
1976
Honorable mentions: Ramones, Sad Wings of Destiny |
13 | | Ramones Rocket to Russia
1977
Honorable mention: A Farewell to Kings |
14 | | Judas Priest Stained Class
1978
Honorable mention: Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds |
15 | | Motorhead Overkill
1979
Honorable mentions: Bomber, Highway to Hell, From the Fjords |
16 | | Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
1980 (strongest year so far)
Honorable mentions: Ace of Spades, Lightening to the Nations, Strong Arm of the Law, Songs the Lord Taught Us |
17 | | Oingo Boingo Only a Lad
1981
Honorable mentions: Moving Pictures, Welcome to Hell, Damaged |
18 | | Accept Restless and Wild
1982 (another strong year)
Honorable mentions: Screaming for Vengeance, Iron Fist, Milo Goes to College, the B side of Number of the Beast |
19 | | Metallica Kill 'Em All
1983
Honorable mentions: Show No Mercy, Holy Diver |
20 | | Iron Maiden Powerslave
1984
Honorable mentions: RTL, Don't Break the Oath, Purple Rain, King of the Dead |
21 | | Possessed Seven Churches
1985
Honorable mentions: To Mega Therion, Bonded by Blood |
22 | | The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
1986
Honorable mentions: Reign in Blood, Peace Sells, Somewhere in Time, Doomsday for the Deceiver |
23 | | Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark
1987
Honorable mentions: Abigail, Nightfall, Music for the Masses, Children of God |
24 | | Razor Violent Restitution
1988
Honorable mentions: From Enslavement to Obliteration, Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II, "Them", Blood Fire Death |
25 | | Sodom Agent Orange
1989
Honorable mentions: Altars of Madness, The Years of Decay, Consuming Impulse |
26 | | Judas Priest Painkiller
1990
Honorable mentions: Fallen Angel of Doom, Rust in Peace, The Key, Hammerheart |
27 | | Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten
1991
Honorable mentions: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Unquestionable Presence, Like an Everflowing Stream, Mental Vortex |
28 | | Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
1992
Honorable mentions: Dirt, The Red in the Sky is Ours, Somewhere Far Beyond, All Creatures Great and Eaten |
29 | | Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
1993
Honorable mentions: Nespithe, 36 Chambers, Bastards, Det sam engang var, Heartwork |
30 | | Burzum Hvis lyset tar oss
1994 (most 5s in a single year so far)
Honorable mentions: Subterranean, Transylvanian Hunger, In the Nightside Eclipse, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, Blasphemy Made Flesh |
31 | | Dark Tranquillity The Gallery
1995 (another strong year)
Honorable mentions: Burzum s/t + Aske reissue, Slaughter of the Soul, Symbolic, Minas Morgul |
32 | | Cryptopsy None So Vile
1996
Honorable mentions: The Jester Race, Filosofem, Abducted, Oracular Eyes |
33 | | Hypocrisy The Final Chapter
1997
Honorable mentions: Something Wild, Whoracle, Static Age, In Abhorrence Dementia |
34 | | Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
1998
Honorable mentions: Sound of Perseverance, My Arms Your Hearse, Doomed Dark Years |
35 | | Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
1999
Honorable mentions: Nattestid, Colony, At the Heart of Winter |
36 | | Weakling Dead as Dreams
2000
Honorable mentions: Follow the Reaper, Close to a World Below, Swamplord, Dawn of Victory, Clayman |
37 | | Ensiferum Ensiferum
2001
Honorable mentions: 1184, Jane Doe, Silence, Tales from Eternal Dusk, Field Songs |
38 | | Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
2002
Honorable mentions: Drunken Lullabies, Damage Done, City of Caterpillar, They Will Return, Likferd, |
39 | | Slough Feg Traveller
2003
Honorable mentions: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth, A Flame to the Ground Beneath, Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist |
40 | | Wintersun Wintersun
2004
Honorable mentions: Iron, Imaginations Through the Looking Glass, Since the Day It All Came Down, I (Sun of the Sleepless and Nachtmahr split) |
41 | | Taake Hordalands Doedskvad
2005
Honorable mentions: Hellfire, Virus, Into the Enchanted Chamber, Verisakeet |
42 | | Cake Bake Betty Songs About Teeth
2006
Honorable mentions: With Oden On Our Side, TDAGARIM, Above the Weeping World, La Sanie des siecles |
43 | | The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal
2007
Honorable mentions: Riders of the Plague, Havitetty, Halmstad |
44 | | Darkspace Dark Space III
2008
Honorable mentions: WotLK soundtrack, Deathconciousness, Trivmvirate, Rest in Morbid Darkness |
45 | | Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel
2009 (year I joined Sput on my OG account, wowzers!)
Honorable mentions: Act II: The Father of Death, Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars, Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
46 | | Lantlos .neon
2010
Honorable mentions: The Long Procession, Paracletus, Axioma Ethica Odini, The Rise of Satanic Might |
47 | | Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis
2011
Honorable mentions: Exmilitary, The Destroyers of All |
48 | | Rise Of The Northstar Rise Of The Northstar
2012
Honorable mentions: On the Impossible Past, Sorrow and Extinction, Ear-Piercing Thrash |
49 | | Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum
2013 (strong year for 4's)
Honorable mentions: Black Death Horizon, Colored Sands, Halo of Blood, Seventh Swamphony, Everblack, Teethed Glory and Injury |
50 | | Rise Of The Northstar Welcame
2014
Honorable mentions: A Skeletal Domain, Tales of Ancient Prophecy, Spectral Lore III, Kill Urself My Man |
51 | | Akhlys The Dreaming I
2015
Honorable mentions: Autumn Eternal, Charnel Passages, 100% Electronica |
52 | | Avantasia Ghostlights
2016
Honorable mentions: Atrocity Exhibition, Autumn, Jumalten Aika, Devoid of Light |
53 | | Fen Winter
2017 (so far)
Honorable mention: EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
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