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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