Best Album of the Year


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best album of 2022:
Judicator - The Majesty of Decay

honorable mentions:
Vorbid - A Swan by the Edge of Mandela
Aquilla - Mankind's Odyssey
Abbath - Dread Reaver
De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue
Saxon - Carpe Diem
Megadeth - The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
Xentrix - Seven Words
Inhuman Condition - Fearsick
Jungle Rot - A Call to Arms
Abyssus - Death Revival
Detherous - Unrelenting Malevolence
Quartz - On the Edge of No Tomorrow
Them - Fear City
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Satan - Earth Infernal
Eliminator - Ancient Light
RF Force - RF Force
Daeth Daemon - Span of Æons
Jack Starr's Burning Starr - Souls of the Innocent
Critical Defiance - No Life Forms

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best album of 2018:
Judas Priest - Firepower

honorable mentions:
Neter - Inferus
Traitor - Knee-Deep in the Dead
Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot
Voight Kampff - Substance Rêve
Gatekeeper - East of Sun
Crescent - The Order of Amenti
Pestilence - Hadeon
Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath
Imperialist - Cipher


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best album of 2017:
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel

honorable mentions:
Evil Invaders - Feed Me Violence
Sorcerer - The Crowning of the Fire King
Obituary - Obituary
Impalers - The Celestial Dictator
Arduini/Balich - Dawn of Ages
Woebringer - Woe to the Vanquished
Morbid Flesh - Rites of the Mangled
Incantation - Profane Nexus
Deep Purple - Infinite

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best album of 2016:
Diamond Head - Diamond Head

honorable mentions:
Metal Church - XI
Flotsam and Jetsam - Flotsam and Jetsam
Suicidal Tendencies - World Gone Mad
Megadeth - Dystopia
Death Angel - The Evil Divide
Sodom - Decision Day
Testament - Brotherhood of the Snake
Anthrax - For All Kings
Destruction - Under Attack


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best album of 2015:
Sorcerer - In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross

honorable mentions:
Unleashed - Dawn of the Nine
Motorhead - Bad Magic
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down
Venom - From the Very Depths
Satan - Atom by Atom
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
Saxon - Battering Ram
U.D.O. - Decadent



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best album of 2014:
Rigor Mortis - Slaves to the Grave

honorable mentions:
Sabaton - Heroes
Massacre - Back From Beyond
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
Accept - Blind Rage
Gamma Ray - Empire of the Undead
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
Overkill - White Devil Armory
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
Primal Fear - Delivering the Black



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best album of 2013:
Satan - Life Sentence

honorable mentions:
Motorhead - Aftershock
Black Sabbath - 13
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Hail of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
U.D.O. - Steelhammer
Death Angel - The Dream Calls for Blood
Queensryche - Queensryche
Heaven & Earth - Dig
Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light


Prior years to be added at a future date (because of special relativity)

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