For each year from 1970 up to last year, list your fav metal album released that year + your fav non-metal album from the same year, and pick the better of the two. Then calculate the % of years where metal won the head to head battle to get your score. For example, picks bolded here would mean a score of 50% metal so far: '70: Black Sabbath – Paranoid .......... Miles Davis – Bitches Brew '71: Black Sabbath – Master of Reality .......... Led Zeppelin – IV '72: Deep Purple – Machine Head .......... Wishbone Ash – Argus '73: Budgie – Never Turn Your Back on a Friend .......... Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon ...and on it goes. Might be best to put such long lists in spoiler tags (or not). Usual blah blah about using some of your own discretion to figure out which side borderline albums should go on.
i'll say it has to be metal primary on RYM to be counted as metal, don't @ me '70: black sabbath - paranoid .......... steeleye span - hark! the village wait '71: black sabbath - master of reality .......... comus - first utterance '72: black sabbath - vol. 4 .......... captain beyond - captain beyond '73: buffalo - volcanic rock .......... icecross - icecross '74: budgie - in for the kill .......... king crimson - red '75: rainbow - ritchie blackmore's rainbow .......... pink floyd - wish you were here '76: judas priest - sad wings of destiny .......... boston - boston '77: judas priest - sin after sin .......... television - marquee moon '78: scorpions - taken by force .......... pere ubu - datapanik in the year zero '79: legend - from the fjords .......... talking heads - fear of music '80: angel witch - angel witch .......... roky erickson - 5 symbols '81: holocaust - the nightcomers .......... wipers - youth of america '82: pagan altar - pagan altar .......... the cure - pornography '83: iron maiden - piece of mind .......... wipers - over the edge '84: jag panzer - ample destruction .......... minutemen - double nickels on the dime '85: fates warning - the spectre within .......... marquee moon - beyond the pale '86: candlemass - epicus doomicus metallicus .......... cro-mags - the age of quarrel '87: dark quarterer - dark quarterer .......... sonic youth - sister '88: adramelch - irae melanox .......... pixies - surfer rosa '89: helstar - nosferatu .......... dead moon - unknown passage '90: deicide - deicide .......... angelo badalamenti - twin peaks '91: kingsbane - kingsbane .......... dead moon - stranded in the mystery zone '92: at the gates - the red in the sky is ours .......... dead moon - strange pray tell '93: at the gates - with fear i kiss the burning darkness .......... wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang (36 chambers) '94: mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas .......... autechre - amber '95: ved buens ende - written in waters .......... genius/gza - liquid swords '96: sacramentum - far away from the sun .......... modest mouse - this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about '97: summoning - dol guldur .......... modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west '98: the chasm - deathcult for eternity: the triumph .......... elend - the umbersun '99: katatonia - tonight's decision .......... oidupaa vladimir oiun - divine music from a jail '00: the chasm - procession to the infraworld .......... radiohead - kid a '01: axis of advance - strike .......... bjork - vespertine '02: wolfnacht - heidentum .......... hot snakes - suicide invoice '03: the chasm - conjuration of a spectral empire .......... elend - winds devouring men '04: deathspell omega - si monvmentvm reqviris, circvmspice .......... arcade fire - funeral '05: manilla road - gates of fire .......... gravenhurst - fires in distant buildings '06: warning - watching from a distance .......... joanna newsom - ys '07: hour of 13 - hour of 13 .......... big blood - space gallery... '08: arghoslent - hornets of the pogrom .......... portishead - third '09: nokturnal mortum - the voice of steel .......... animal collective - merriweather post pavilion '10: harvey milk - a small turn of human kindness .......... big boi - sir luscious left foot: the son of chico dusty '11: sorcier des glaces - the puressence of primitive forests .......... royal headache - royal headache '12: hellwell - beyond the boundaries of sin .......... aesop rock - skelethon '13: satan - life sentence .......... beastmilk - climax '14: stargazer - a merging to the boundless .......... richard dawson - nothing important '15: satan - atom by atom .......... joanna newsom - divers '16: sorcier des glaces - north .......... aesop rock - the impossible kid '17: wampyrinacht - we will be watching .......... richard dawson - peasant '18: satan - cruel magic .......... hot snakes - jericho sirens '19: orodruin - ruins of eternity .......... richard dawson - 2020 '20: megaton sword - blood hails steel .......... rope sect - the great flood i am 53% metal. a few pretty desperate picks here where i didn't have much choice lol, really need to dive deeper into some of these years. probably missed one or two favourites as well.
Damn, I was thinking of doing one decade at a time and here you do the whole damn thing in one post. Surprised you picked the solidly average Jericho Sirens as your non-metal aoty for '18, has it grown on you a lot or was it just a really weak year for you?
Got to 2000 through previous polls and then I had to start thinking so I gave up, but it was about 50/50 for the first 30 years.
the latter. that's not the only album i've rated 3.5 or lower that i had to list. it's not necessarily that the years are weak though, just that i've barely heard anything from them.
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid / Townes Van Zandt - Delta Momma Blues 1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality / Mickey Newbury - 'Frisco Mabel Joy 1972: Black Sababth - Vol. 4 / Nick Drake - Pink Moon 1973: Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend / Tompall Glaser - Charlie 1974: UFO - Phenomenon / Waylon Jennings - The Ramblin' Man 1975: Scorpions - In Trance / Guy Clark - Old No. 1 1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny / Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin / Brian Eno - Before and After Science 1978: Scorpions - Taken By Force / Kate Bush - The Kick Inside 1979: Riot - Narita / Hank Williams, Jr. - Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound 1980: Angel Witch - Angel Witch / The Cure - Seventeen Seconds 1981: Riot - Fire Down Under / Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju 1982: Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades / Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska 1983: Manilla Road - Crystal Logic / New Order - Power, Corruptions & Lies 1984: Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction / Talk Talk - It's My Life 1985: Razor - Evil Invaders / Kate Bush - Hounds of Love 1986: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian / Siouxsie and The Banshees - Tinderbox 1987: Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark / Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor 1988: Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare / Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room 1989: Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos / Kate Bush - The Sensual World 1990: Bathory - Hammerheart / Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium 1991: Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream / Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity 1992: Root - Temple in the Underworld / Alice in Chains - Dirt 1993: Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract / Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror 1994: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part One / Mickey Newbury - Nights When I Am Sane 1995: Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane / Guy Clark - Dublin Blues 1996: Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power / Autumn - The Hating Tree 1997: Cauldron Born - Born of the Cauldron / Dave Van Ronk - Live at Sir George Williams University 1998: The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph / The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet? 1999: Summoning - Stronghold / Blaze Foley - Live at the Austin Outhouse 2000: The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld / Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby 2001: Morrigan - Plague, Waste and Death / Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) 2002: Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... for an Iron Age / Neko Case - Blacklisted 2003: Dub Buk - Русь понад усе! / N/A 2004: The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution / Tift Merritt - Tambourine 2005: Morrigan - Headcult / Kate Bush - Aerial 2006: Force of Darkness - Force of Darkness / Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood 2007: Slough Feg - Hardworlder / Chromatics - Night Drive 2008: Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood / N/A 2009: Deströyer 666 - Defiance / Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 2010: Communion - Communion / N/A 2011: Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages / Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer 2012: Faustcoven - Hellfire and Funeral Bells / Linea Aspera - Linea Aspera 2013: Zemial - Nykta / Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe 2014: Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall / Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 2015: Panphage - Storm / Colter Wall - Imaginary Appalachia 2016: Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire / Soft Kill - Choke 2017: Cult of Eibon - Lycan Twilight Sorcery / Drab Majesty - The Demonstration 2018: Deceased - Ghostly White / Colter Wall - Songs of the Plains 2019: Vultures Vengeance - The Knightlore / Twin Tribes - Ceremony 2020: Megaton Sword - Blood Hails Steel... Steel Hails Fire / Rope Sect - The Great Flood 2021: Force of Darkness - Twilight of Dark Illumination / Nuovo Testamento - New Earth 82% metal. Slim pickings for non-metal after the 80s. Never stood much of a chance.
Great band ... never seen them mentioned around here before! High is my favourite Aussie punk album ever, despite (or perhaps because of) sounding completely british.
The albums with metal as secondary on RYM I counted as metal are Mournin', Rocka Rolla & Bandolier, as doing the reverse would seem more odd. The first & last tracks of Bandolier are metal but I reckon I Can't See My Feelings is up there as well. Still viewing Impeckable as significantly less than half metal though. 70: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath .......... The Doors – Morrison Hotel 71: Budgie – Budgie .......... Bernard Parmegiani – Chronos 72: Night Sun – Mournin' .......... Bodkin – Bodkin 73: Budgie – Never Turn Your Back on a Friend .......... Trevor Wishart – Journey Into Space 74: Judas Priest – Rocka Rolla .......... The Residents – Meet the Residents 75: Budgie – Bandolier .......... Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti 76: Rainbow – Rising .......... The Runaways – The Runaways 77: Bow Wow – Signal Fire .......... The Runaways – Queens of Noise 78: Judas Priest – Killing Machine .......... Budgie – Impeckable 79: Motörhead – Overkill .......... Gang of Four – Entertainment! 80: Diamond Head – Lightning to the Nations .......... The B-52's – Wild Planet 81: Girlschool – Hit and Run .......... SPK – Information Overload Unit 82: Plasmatics – Coup D'État .......... SPK – Leichenschrei 83: Metallica – Kill 'em All .......... Einstürzende Neubauten – Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. 84: Metallica – Ride the Lightning .......... KUKL – The Eye 85: Megadeth – Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! .......... The Macc Lads – Beer & Sex & Chips 'n' Gravy 86: English Dogs – Where Legend Began .......... New Model Army – The Ghost of Cain 87: Candlemass – Nightfall .......... Anti-Nowhere League – The Perfect Crime 88: Metallica – ...And Justice for All .......... Headless Chickens – Stunt Clown 89: Stratovarius – Fright Night .......... New Model Army – Thunder and Consolation 90: Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge .......... Sticky Filth – Nektar der Götter 91: Overkill – Horrorscope .......... Dayglo Abortions – Two Dogs Fucking · Deux Chien Fourrent 92: Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction .......... Fu-Schnickens – F.U. "Don't Take It Personal" 93: Life of Agony – River Runs Red .......... Headless Chickens – Body Blow 94: Megadeth – Youthanasia .......... Laurie Anderson – Bright Red / Tightrope 95: Tankard – The Tankard .......... Onyx – All We Got Iz Us 96: Crisis – Deathshead Extermination .......... Bloodhound Gang – One Fierce Beer Coaster 97: Metallica – Reload .......... Björk – Homogenic 98: Stratovarius – Destiny .......... The Offspring – Americana 99: Danzig – Danzig 6:66: Satan's Child .......... Avotor – Looming 00: Isis – Celestial .......... Cypress Hill – Skull & Bones 01: Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero .......... Hog Haul Valentine – The Dead Horse Bay Hymns 02: Danzig – Danzig 777: I Luciferi .......... Pine Tree State Mind Control – Transmission #4 03: Black Boned Angel – Supereclipse .......... Nurse With Wound – Salt Marie Celeste 04: Ludicra – Another Great Love Song .......... Rugged – Dirty South 05: Monarch – 666 .......... Bloodhound Gang – Hefty Fine 06: Coffins – The Other Side of Blasphemy .......... Hurra Torpedo – Kollossus of Makedonia 07: Creeping – Funeral Crawl .......... Throbbing Gristle – Part Two: The Endless Not 08: Wall of Silents – Looking Through Cadaver Eyes .......... Dupobs – Win Some, Lose Some 09: Eagle Twin – The Unkindness of Crows .......... Throbbing Gristle – The Third Mind Movements 10: The House of Capricorn – Sign of the Cloven Hoof .......... Laurie Anderson – Homeland 11: Creeping – Order of Snakes .......... Sticky Filth – Fourth Domain 12: Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped the Serpent's Scale .......... Left or Right – Buzzy 13: Black Boned Angel – The End .......... Mr. Toxic - Clusterphobic 14: Exordium Mors – The Apotheosis of Death .......... Riurdja – Unfrozen 15: Battle Beast – Unholy Savior .......... Bonecruncher – Bonecruncher 16: Bloodnut – Blues From the Red Sons .......... Dayglo Abortions – Armageddon Survival Guide 17: Monarch – Never Forever .......... The Stungrenades – Class War: Fight Back! 18: Bongripper – Terminal .......... Wax Chattels – Wax Chattels 19: Into Orbit – Kinesis .......... Yugen Blakrok – Anima Mysterium 20: Stälker – Black Majik Terror .......... Wax Chattels – Clot 21: Whitehorse – Death Weight .......... Psychodrama – Orocline Bloopy is 61.5% metal
1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid vs The Stooges - Fun House 1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality vs Pink Fairies - Never Never Land 1972: Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 vs Sandy Denny - Sandy 1973: Buffalo - Volcanic Rock vs Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power 1974: Buffalo - Only Want You for Your Body vs Koen De Bruyne - Here Comes the Crazy Man ! 1975: Scorpions - In Trance vs Patti Smith - Horses 1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny vs The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll 1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin vs Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols 1978: Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll vs Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream 1979: Legend - Fröm the Fjörds vs Michael Jackson - Off the Wall 1980: Angel Witch - Angel Witch vs The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us 1981: Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire vs Roky Erickson and The Aliens - The Evil One 1982: Manilla Road - Metal vs Descendents - Milo Goes to College 1983: Slayer - Show No Mercy vs The Meteors - Wreckin' Crew 1984: Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus vs Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade 1985: Slayer - Hell Awaits vs The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash 1986: Saint Vitus - Born Too Late vs Demented Are Go! - In Sickness & in Health 1987: Slaughter - Strappado vs Dag Nasty - Wig Out at Denko's 1988: Voivod - Dimension Hatröss vs Demented Are Go! - Kicked Out of Hell 1989: Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos vs The Electric Eels - Having a Philosophical Investigation With... 1990: Impetigo - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale vs Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly 1991: Fates Warning - Parallels vs Nirvana - Nevermind 1992: Impetigo - Horror of the Zombies vs The Mummies - Never Been Caught 1993: Macabre - Sinister Slaughter vs Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 1994: Solstice - Lamentations vs Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep 1995: Autopsy - Shitfun vs Three-6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez 1996: Abscess - Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men vs Frank Klepacki - The Music of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 1997: Abuse - A Sunday Morning Killing Spree vs John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp 1998: The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph vs Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing 1999: Goatsnake - I vs Project Pat - Ghetty Green 2000: !T.O.O.H.! - Z vyšší vůle vs Project Pat - Murderers & Robbers 2001: Mordeth - Animicide vs Kylie Minogue - Fever 2002: Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend vs Dälek - From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots 2003: Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger of Metal vs Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts 2004: Murder Squad - Ravenous, Murderous vs Missy Higgins - The Sound of White 2005: Slough Feg - Atavism vs Wobbler - Hinterland 2006: Endwarfment - The Paralympik Sessions vs Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2007: Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers vs Mirror Snake - Mirror Snake 2008: Laserguys - Ho' Ho' Ho' vs Brainbombs - Fucking Mess 2009: Obliteration - Nekropsalms vs MF DOOM - Born Like This 2010: Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons vs Devo - Something for Everybody 2011: Lord Vicar - Signs of Osiris vs Orne - The Tree of Life 2012: Deathhammer - Onward to the Pits vs Title Fight - Floral Green 2013: Lobotomized - Norwegian Trash vs 7 Days of Funk - 7 Days of Funk 2014: Laserguys - Damn You Laserguys vs The Buttress - Behind Every Great Man 2015: Macabre Omen - Gods of War - At War vs Joanna Newsom - Divers 2016: Nekro Drunkz - Lavatory Carnage vs Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Letkukytkentöjä 2017: Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows vs Paramore - After Laughter 2018: Voïvod - The Wake vs Adrianne Lenker - Abysskiss 2019: Nekro Drunkz - Terminal Perversion vs Normal Man - City Livin' 2020: Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville vs Rein - Reincarnated 2021: Reveal - Doppelherz vs Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort to Me This was actually more fun than I was expecting. I'm 82.3% metal, 100% retarded.
I should add 0.1% for the septal occluder in my heart. Now I've remembered the iron content in bone marrow and blood - all humans are heavy metal as fuck to the core.
70. Black Sabbath - Paranoid / Amon Duul II - Yeti 71. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality / Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 72. Black Sabbath - Vol 4 / Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond 73. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath / Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) 74. Budgie - In for the Kill / Camel - Mirage 75. Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow / Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 76. Rainbow - Rising / The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers 77. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin / Wire - Pink Flag 78. Rainbow - Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll / X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents 79. Motorhead - Overkill / The Clash - London Calling 80. Motorhead - Ace of Spades / Kate Bush - Never for Ever 81. Venom - Welcome to Hell / Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin 82. Pagan Altar - Pagan Altar / Misfits - Walk Among Us 83. Manowar - Into Glory Ride / Jaco Pastorious - Invitation 84. Bathory - Bathory / Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries 85. Destruction - Infernal Overkill / Misfits - Legacy of Brutality 86. Metallica - Master of Puppets / The Smiths - The Queen is Dead 87. Death - Scream Bloody Gore / Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun 88. Metallica - And Justice For All / Dead Can Dance - The Serpent’s Egg 89. Autopsy - Severed Survival / The Cure - Disintegration 90. Judas Priest - Painkiller / Bad Religion - Against the Grain 91. Autopsy - Mental Funeral / Nirvana - Nevermind 92. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours / Alice in Chains - Dirt 93. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence / NoMeansNo - Why Do They Call Me Mr Happy? 94. Gorgoroth - Pentagram / Soundgarden - Superunknown 95. Ulver - Bergatt / Lisa Gerrard - The Mirror Pool 96. Opeth - Morningrise / Elend - Les Tenebres du Dehors 97. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk / Deftones - Around the Fur 98. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity / Elend - The Umbersun 99. Opeth - Still Life / Anathema - Judgement 00. Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising / Ulver - Perdition City 01. Windir - 1184 / Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit 02. Negura Bunget - n Crugu Bradului / Augie March - Strange Bird 03. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God / Ulver - Svidd Neger 04. Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus 05. Nocte Obducta - Nektar / Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett 06. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain / Rome - Nera 07. Farsot - IIII / Venetian Snares - My Downfall 08. Mgla - Groza / Shearwater - Rook 09. Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ / Rome - Flowers from Exile 10. Burzum - Belus / Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me 11. Midnight - Satanic Royalty / Rome - Die Aesthetik der Herrshaftsfreiheit 12. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None / Dead Can Dance - Anastasis 13. Gorguts - Colored Sands / Beastmilk - Climax 14. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen / Augie March - Havens Dumb 15. Batushka - Litourgiya / Royal Headache - High 16. Vektor - Terminal Redux / Rome - The Hyperion Machine 17. Wampyrinacht - We Will Be Watching / Steven Wilson - To the Bone 18. Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil / Haken - Vector 19. Riot City - Burn the Night / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen 20. Aara - En Ergo Einai / The Goners - Good Mourning 21. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm / Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me A rather flaccid 56% Metal
For the years I've been alive as I cba doing back to 1970 right now, will take bloody ages! Metal or metal-related in bold... 1992: Rage Against the Machine - S/T 1993: Slowdive - Souvlaki 1994: Nas - Illmatic 1995: Ulver - Bergtatt 1996: Bowery Electric - Beat 1997: Biosphere - Substrata 1998: Gang Starr - Moment of Truth 1999: Immortal - At the Heart of Winter 2000: Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists 2001: Converge - Jane Doe 2002: Jehst - Return of the Drifter 2003: Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People 2004: Amplifier - Amplifier 2005: Sigur Rós - Takk 2006: Hammock - Raising Your Voice 2007: The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand 2008: Rhyme Asylum - State of Lunacy 2009: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II 2010: Deftones - Diamond Eyes 2011: And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs 2012: Dead Can Dance - Anastasis 2013: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 2014: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata 2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly 2016: David Bowie - Blackstar 2017: Brand New - Science Fiction 2018: Holy Fawn - Death Spells 2019: black midi - Schlagenheim 2020: Deftones - Ohms 2021: Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion 10/30... of those, only about half are extreme metal, but ready to be sent for re-education.
1970: Black Sabbath- Paranoid/ Curtis Mayfield- Curtis 1971: Black Sabbath- Mastersof Reality/ Marvin Gaye- What's Going On 1972: Black Sabbath- Vol. 4/ Yes- Close to the Edge 1973: Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/ Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 1974: Judas Priest- Rocka Rolla/ King Crimson- Red 1975: Black Sabbath- Sabotage/ Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 1976: Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny/ Rush- 2112 1977: Judas Priest- Sin After Sin/ Rush- A Farewell to Kings 1978: Judas Priest- Stained Class/ Rush- Hemispheres 1979: Motörhead- Overkill/ Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures 1980: Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden/ Joy Division- Closer 1981: Black Sabbath- Mob Rules/ Rush- Moving Pictures 1982: Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast/ Cure- Pornography 1983: Dio- Holy Diver/ New Order- Power, Corruption, & Lies 1984: Metallica- Ride the Lightning/ Prince and the Revolution- Purple Rain 1985: Slayer- Hell Awaits/ Dead Can Dance- Spleen and Ideal 1986: Slayer- Reign in Blood/ Depeche Mode- Black Celebration 1987: Dark Quarterer- Dark Quarterer/ Dead Can Dance- Within the Realm of a Dying Sun 1988: Helloween- Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. II/ Pixies- Surfer Rosa 1989: Morbid Angel- Alters of Madness/ The Cure- Disintegration 1990: Megadeath- Rust in Peace/ Depeche Mode- Violator 1991: Dismember- Like an Everflowing Stream/ My Bloody Valentine- Loveless 1992: At the Gates- The Red in the Sky is Ours/ Tori Amos- Little Earthquakes 1993: My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans/ The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream 1994: Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss/ Portishead- Dummy 1995: Blind Guardian- Imaginations From the Other Side/ The Smashing Pumkpins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1996: Cryptopsy- None So Vile/ Fiona Apple- Tidal 1997: Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk/ Godspeed You! Black Emepror- F#A# Infinity 1998: Opeth- My Arms, Your Hearse/ Tori Amos- From the Choirgirl Hotel 1999: Graveland- Immortal Pride/ Fiona Apple- When the Pawn... 2000: Rhapsody- Dawn of Victory/ Radiohead- Kid A 2001: Neurosis- A Sun That Never Sets/ Silver Mount Zion- Born into Trouble as Sparks Fly Upwards 2002: Agalloch- The Mantle/ Porcupine Tree- In Absentina 2003: Blut Aus Nord- The Work Which Transforms God/ Silver Mount Zion- This is Our Punk Rock 2004: Velvet Cacoon- Genevieve/ Elizabeth Anka Vajagic- Stand With the Stillness of This Day 2005: Deathspell Omega- Kenose/ The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute 2006: Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain/ The Mars Volta- Aputechture 2007: Deathspell Omega- Fas- Ite, malediciti, in ignem aeternum/ Burial- Untrue 2008: Dead Congregation- Graves of Archangels/ Agalloch- The White EP 2009: Ulcerate- Everything is Fire/ The Mars Volta- Ochahedron 2010: Deathspell Omega- Paracletus/ Silver Mount Zion- Kollaps Tradixionales 2011: Fleshgod Apocalypse- Agony/ Chelsea Wolfe- Apokalypsis 2012: Dying Fetus- Reign Supreme/ Swans- The Seer 2013: Deafheaven- Sunbather/ Chelsea Wolfe- Pain is Beauty 2014: Panopticon- Roads to the North/ Swans- To Be Kind 2015: Unleash the Archers- Time Stands Still/ Chelsea Wolfe- Abyss 2016: Arizmenda- Despairs Depths Descended/ Swans- The Glowing Man 2017: Ne Obliviscaris- Urn/ Chelsea Wolfe- Hiss Spun 2018: Deafheaven- Ordinary Corrupt Love/ Dead Can Dance- Dionysus 2019: Funereal Presence- Achtius/ Chelsea Wolfe- Birth of Violence 2020: Demoniac- So It Goes/ Fiona Apple- Fetch the Bolt Cutters Metal: 25 Non-Metal:27 Metal gets a huge bump from the past 10 years, because I really haven't been listening to a lot of modern non-metal.
Sunbather is excellent. The best blackgaze album ever IMO. Ordinary Corrupt love is more so the best album in a relatively weak year. However, it has some phenomenal songs like "Honeycomb" and "Canary Yellow." I gave Sunbather a 97/100 and OCL a 93/100.
