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Metal Hammer Albums of  1994

1. Soundgarden- Superunknown
2. Therapy? - Troublegum
3. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
4. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. Black Crowes - Amorica
7. Rollins Band - Weight
8. Megadeth - Youthanasia
9. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
10. Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
11. Green Day - Dookie
12. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
13. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
14. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
15. Slayer - Divine Intervention
16. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
17. Sugar - F.U.E.L.
18. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
19 Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
20. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid

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Metal Hammer Albums of 1996

1. Sepultura - Roots
2. Corrosion Of Conformity - Wiseblood
3. Type O Negative - October Rust
4= Pearl Jam - No Code
4= Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
5. Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag
6. Metallica - Load
7. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
8. Screaming Trees - Dust
9. Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

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Metal Hammer Albums of 1997

1. Feeder - Polythene
2. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
3. 3 Colours Red - Pure
4. Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
5. Deftones - Around The Fur
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Paradise Lost - One Second
8. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
9. The Verve - Urban Hymns
10. Faith No More - Album Of The Year
11. Sick Of It All - Built To Last
12. Misery Loves Co. - Not Like Them
13. Strapping Young Lad - City
14. Metallica - Re-Load
15. Kerbdog - On The Turn
16. Green Day - Nimrod
17. Reef - Glow
18. Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Have A Ball
19. Oasis - Be Here Now
20. Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun

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Metal Hammer Albums of 1998

1. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
2. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
3. Pitch Shifter - www.pitchshifter.com
4. Pulkas - Greed
5. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
6. Fear Factory - Obsolete
7. Soulfly - Soulfly
8. Pearl Jam - Yield
9. Backyard Babies - Total 13
10. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
11. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
12. Entombed - Same Difference
13. Sepultura - Against
14. Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
15. Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die
16. Therapy? - Semi-Detached
17. Metallica - Garage Inc.
18. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
19. Ocean Machine - Biomech
20. Rancid - Life Won’t Wait

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Metal Hammer Albums of 1999

1. Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
2. Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
3. Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
4. Incubus - Make Yourself
5. Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
6. Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
7. Machine Head - The Burning Red
8. Live - The Distance To Here
9. Misfits - Famous Monsters
10. Amen - Amen
11. Slipknot - Slipknot
12. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
13. The Clash - From Here To Eternity
14. Anathema - Judgement
15. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
16. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
17. Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care Of You
18. Neurosis - Times Of Grace
19. Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
20. Paradise Lost - Host

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Metal Hammer Albums of 2000



1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2. Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
3. Monster Magnet - God Says No
4. The Workhorse Movement - Sons Of The Pioneers
5. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
6. Disturbed - The Sickness
7. Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn
8. Pitchshifter - Deviant
9. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
10. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
11. One Minute Silence - Buy Now ... Saved Later
12. Deftones - White Pony
13. My Ruin - A Prayer Under Pressure Of Violent Anguish
14. The Offspring - Conspiracy Of One
15. Soulfly - Primitive
16. Earthtone 9 - Arc'tan'gent
17. AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
18. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
19. Corrosion Of Conformity - America's Volume Dealer
20. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish & The Hotdog Flavored Water

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2001

1. System Of A Down - Toxicity
2. Slipknot - Iowa
3. Rammstein - Mutter
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Static-X - Machine
6. Slayer - God Hates Us All
7. Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
8. Fear Factory - Digimortal
9. Anyone - Anyone
10. Incubus - Morning View
11. Beautiful Creatures - Beautiful Creatures
12. Biohazard - Uncivilization
13. Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
14. Boyhitscar - Boyhitscar
15. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
16. Buckcherry - Time Bomb
17. Puddle Of Mudd - Come Clean
18. Machine Head - Supercharger
19. Nonpoint - Statement
20. Kittie - Oracle

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2002

1. Soil - Scars
2. Audioslave - Audioslave
3. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
4. Down - II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
5. Murderdolls - Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls
6. Mushroomhead - XX
7. Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
9. Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing?
10. Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
11. Korn - Untouchables
12. Fu Manchu - California Crossing
13. Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
14. A - Hi-Fi Serious
15. Opeth - Deliverance
16. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
17. Finch - What It Is To Burn
18. 30 Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars
19. Five Pointe O - Untitled
20. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2003

1. Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
2. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
3. Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation
4. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
5. Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
6. Opeth - Damnation
7. Anthrax - We've Come For You All
8. Deftones - Deftones
9. AFI - Sing The Sorrow
10. Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
11. The Darkness - Permission To Land
12. Metallica - St. Anger
13. Cave In - Antenna
14. Devildriver - Devildriver
15. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
16. Posion The Well - You Come Before You
17. Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason
18. Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
19. The Distillers - Coral Fang
20. Mondo Generator - A Drug Problem That Never Existed
21. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
22. Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
23. Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror
24. Jane's Addiction - Strays
25. Lamb Of God - New American Gospel
26. Jetplane Landing - Once Upon A Spark
27. Muse - Absolution
28. Boysetsfire - Tomorrow Come Today
29. Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
30. Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2004

1. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
2. Mastodon - Leviathan
3. Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
4. Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
5. The Bronx - The Bronx
6. Eighteen Visions - Obsession
7. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
8. Nightwish - Once
9. The Haunted - Revolver
10. Lostprophets - Start Something
11. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
12. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
13. Shadows Fall - The War Within
14. Atreyu - The Curse
15. Motörhead - Inferno
16. Orange Goblin - Thieving From The House Of God
17. Brides Of Destruction - Here Comes The Brides
18. The Used - In Love And Death
19. Unearth - The Coming Storm
20. In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2005

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution
3. Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
4. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
5. System Of A Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize
6. Trivium - Ascendancy
7. Fight Paris - Paradise Found
8. Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus
9. Him - Dark Light
10. Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
11. Sentenced - The Funeral Album
12. God Forbid - IV: Constitution Of Treason
13. Bloodsimple - A Cruel World
14. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
15. Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
16. Spiritual Beggars - Demons
17. Meshuggah - Catch 33
18. Grand Magus - Wolf's Return
19. Cathedral - Garden Of Unearthly Delight
20. Immortal Lee County Killers III - These Bones Will Rise To Love You Again

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2006

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Slayer - Christ Illusion
3. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
4. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
5. AFI - Decemberunderground 6. Lamb Of God - Sacrament
7. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
8. In Flames - Come Clarity
9. Trivium - The Crusade
10. Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
11. The Sword - Age Of Winters
12. Enslaved - Ruun
13. Tool - 10,000 Days
14. Alexisonfire - Crisis
14. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves
16. Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
17. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
18. Exit Ten - This World… They'll Drown
19. Scissorfight - Jaggernaught
20. Ihsahn - The Adversary
21. Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
22. Motörhead - Kiss Of Death
23. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
24. Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
24. Dissection - Reinkaos
24. Unearth - III: In The Eyes Of Fire
27. I - Between Two Worlds
28. Amorphis - Eclipse
29. Audioslave - Revelations
30. Converge - No Heroes
30. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
32. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
32. Ignite - Our Darkest Days
34. Bleeding Through - The Truth
34. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar
36. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening
37. Fucked Up - Hidden World
38. Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
39. Sick Of It All - Death To Tyrants
40. Amplifier - Insider
41. Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
42. 36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside The Flames
42. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
42. Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
42. Roadstar - Grand Hotel
42. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
42. The Bronx - The Bronx
48. Eighteen Visions - 18 Visions
48. Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
50. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2007

1. Machine Head - The Blackening
2. Down - III: Over The Under
3. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
4. Baroness - The Red Album
5. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
6. Turisas - The Varangian Way
7. Megadeth - United Abominations
8. Witchcraft - The Alchemist
9. High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
10. Ministry - The Last Sucker
11. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
12. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
13. The 69 Eyes - Angels
14. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
15. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignum Aeturnum
16. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today 17. Himsa - Summon In Thunder
18. Shadows Fall - Threads Of Life 19. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
20. Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire
21. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part II)
22. Black Stone Cherry - Black Stone Cherry
23. Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
24. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
25. Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
26. Chrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture
27. Manowar - Gods Of War
28. Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
29. 3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
30. Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster - II
31. Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
32. Still Remains - The Serpent
33. Evile - Enter The Grave
34. Ted Maul - White Label
35. Gallhammer - Ill Innocence
36. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
37. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
38. Nile - Ithyphallic
39. Titan - A Raining Sun Of Light And Love For You And You And You
40. Akercocke - Antichrist
41. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
42. Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
43. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
44. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
45. DHG - Supervillain Outcast
46. Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo
47. Om - Pilgrimage
48. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting…
49. Divine Heresy - Bleed The Filth
50. Devildriver - The Last Kind Words

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2008
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1. Metallica - Death Magnetic
2. Opeth - Watershed
3. Ac/Dc - Black Ice
4. Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
5. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
6. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
7. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
8. Meshuggah - Obzen
9. Grand Magus - Iron Will
10. Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk
11. Trivium - Shogun
12. Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
13. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
14. Ihsahn - Angl
15. Satyricon - The Age Of Nero
16. Black Stone Cherry - Folklore And Superstition
17. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
18. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
19. The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
20. Motörhead - Motörizer
21. Enslaved - Vertebrae
22. Cynic - Traced In Air
23. Melvins - Nude With Boots
24. 36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
25. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
26. Bleeding Through - Declaration
27. The Haunted - Versus
28. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
29. Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody
30. Torche - Meanderthal
31. Soulfly - Conquer
32. Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
33. Valient Thorr - Immortalizer
34. Mindless Self Indulgence - If
35. Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Separation
36. Nachtmystium - Assassins
37. Mötley Crüe - Saints Of Los Angeles
38. In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
39. Death Angel - Killing Season
40. Firewind - The Premonition
41. Sahg - Ii
42. Disturbed - Indestructible
43 . Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
44. Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown
45. Walls Of Jericho - The American Dream
46. Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man: Something Wicked Part 2
47. Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
48. Hate Eternal - Fury And Flames
49. Witch - Paralyzed
50 .Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2009
Thanks To J Weaver For Suplying This List


1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
3. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
4. Slayer - World Painted Blood
5. Steel Panther - Feel the Steel
6. Megadeth - Endgame
7. Lamb of God - Wrath
8. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
9. Devildriver - Pray for Villains
10. Baroness - Blue Record
11. Converge - Axe to Fall
12. Rammstein - Lieve Ist Fur Alle Da
13. Kiss - Sonic Boom
14. Bigelf - Cheat the Gallows
15. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
16. Five Finger Death Punch - War Is the Answer
17. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
18. Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
19. Behemoth - Evangelion
20. Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
21. The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
22. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
23. Immortal - All Shall Fall
24. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
25. Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West
26. Gallows - Grey Britain
27. City of Fire - City of Fire
28 Yob - The Great Cessation
29. Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
30. Amorphis - Skyforger
31. Skindred - Shark Bites and Dog Fights
32. The Parlor Mob - And You Were a Crow
33. Coalesce - Ox
34. Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
35. Kylesa - Static Tensions
36. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
37. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
38. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
39. Astra - The Weirding
40. Cauldron - Chained to the Nite
41. Isis - Wavering Radiant
42. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
43. The Devin Townsend Project - Ki
44. The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
45. The Black Crowes - Before the Frost...Until the Freeze
46. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
47. The 69 Eyes - Back in Blood
48. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
49. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
50. Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2010
Thanks To J Weaver For Suplying This List


1. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
2. Alter Bridge - III
3. Deftones- Diamond Eyes
4. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
5. Airbourne - No Guts. No Glory.
6. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
7. Slash - Slash
8. Cathedral - The Guessing Game
9. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
10. Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Straps & Bones
11. Ihsahn - After
12. Bring Me The Horizon - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.
13. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
14. The Dillenger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
15. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
16. Black Country Communion - Black Country Communion
17. Swans - Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
18. High On Fire - Snakes for the Divine
19. Electric Wizard - Black Masses
20. Fear Factory - Mechanize
21. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2
22. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
23. Letlive - Fake History
24. Black Label Society - Order of the Black
25. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra
26. Accept - Blood of the Nations
27. Burzum - Belus
28. Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
29. Volbeat - Beyond Hell/Above Heaven
30. Coheed And Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
31. Your Demise - The Kids We Used to Be
32. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Oudini
33. Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
34. Lower Than Atlantis - Far Q
35. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
36. 36 Crazyfists - Collisions and Castaways
37. The Sword - Warp Riders
38. Monster Magnet - Mastermind
39. Ufomammut - Eve
40. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
41. Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
42. Whitechapel - A New Era of Corruption
43. Serj Tankian - Imperfect Harmonies
44. Soulfly - Omen
45. Christopher Amott - Follow Your Heart
46. Armored Saint - La Raza
47. Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
48. Watain - Lawless Darkness
49. Korn - III
50. Ghost - Opus Eponymous


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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2011
Many Thanks To Daniel Hennessey For This List

01. Mastodon - The Hunter
02. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
03. Anthrax - Worship Music
04. Opeth - Heritage
05. Megadeth - 13
06. Hell - Human Remains
07. Devin Townsend Project - Doconstruction
08. Black Spiders - Sons Of The North
09. Skindred - Union Black
10. Graveyard - Hsinger Blues
11. Evile - Five Serpent's Teeth
12. Gentleman's Pistols - At Her Majesty's Pleasure
13. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
14. Amebix - Sonic Mass
15. Devildriver - Beast
16. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
17. Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
18. Ancient Wisdom - A Godlike Inferno
19. Black Stone Cherry - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
20. Motorhead - The World Is Yours
21. Steel Panther - Balls Out
22. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
23. Pentagram - Last Rites
24. The Damned Things - Ironiclast
25. In Solitude - The World, The Flesh, The Devil
26. Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
27. Trivium - In Waves
28. Foo Fighters - Wasted Light
29. Solstafir - Svartir Sandar
30. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
31. Devin Townsend - Ghost
32. Nightwish - Imaginareum
33. Wormrot - Dirge
34. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
35. Will Haven - Voir Dire
36. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients
37. Altar Of Plagues - Mammal
38. Ken Mode - Venerable
39. Anvil - Juggernaut Of Justice
40. The Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Bon Again
41. Times Of Grace - A Hymn Of A Broken Man
42. Vallenfyre - A Fragile King
43. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
44. Tesseract - One
45. Yob - Atha
46. Cerebral Ballzy - St
47. Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street
48. Arabrot - Solar Anus
49. Primus - Green Naugahyde
50. Trap Them - Darker Handicraft

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2012
Many thaks to Alex Cook For this list



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Metal Hammer Albums of 2013
Many Thaanks to Josh Sindell For This List



1. Clutch - Earth Rocker
2. Carcass - Surgical Steel
3. Black Sabbath - 13
4. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Mind Control
5. Ghost - Infestissumam
6. Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
7. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
8. Motõrhead - Aftershock
9. Watain - The Wild Hunt
10. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
11. Cathedral - The Last Spire
12. Letlive - The Blackest Beautiful
13. In Solitude - Sister
14. Alter Bridge - Fortress
15. Purson - The Circle And The Blue Door
16. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer
17. Deafhaven - Sunbather
18. Kvelertak - Meir
19. Killswitch Engage - Disarm The Descent
20. The Bronx - The Bronx (IV)
21. Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Vols. 1 & 2
22. Heart Of A Coward - Severance
23. Malevolence - Reign Of Suffering
24. Nails - Abandon All Life
25. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
26. Tesseract - Altered State
27. Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals: Walk Through Exits Only
28. Wardruna - Yggdrasil
29. Hell - Curse & Chapter
30. Alice In Chains: The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
31. Cult Of Luna - Vertikal
32. Dream Theater - Dream Theater
33. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
34. Beastmilk - Climax
35. Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
36. Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
37. Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy
38. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
39. Avatarium - Avatarium
40. Black Spiders - This Savage Land
41. Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
42. Wilson - Full Blast Fuckery
43. Argus - Beyond The Martyrs
44. Bleed From Within - Uprising
45. HIM - Tears On Tape
46. Satan - Life Sentance
47. Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
48. The Defiled - Daggers
49. Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
50. Bruce Soord and Jonas Renkse - Wisdom of Crowds

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Metal Hammer Albums of 2014
Many Thaanks to Josh Sindell For This List


1. Behemoth - The Satanist
2. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
3. Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
4. Slipknot - .5 The Gray Chapter
5. Sólstafir - Otta
6. Opeth - Pale Communion
7. Electric Wizard - Time To Die
8. Marmozets - The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets
9. Anathema - Distant Satellites
10. King 810 - Memoirs Of A Murderer
11. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
12. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me
13. Devin Townsend - Z²
14. Alcest - Shelter
15. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
16. Scott Walker + SUNN 0))) - Soused
17. Swans - To Be Kind
18. Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend
19. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity
20. At The Gates - At War With Reality
21. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
22. Architects - Lost Forever/Lost Together
23. Casualties Of Cool - Casualties Of Cool
24. Beartooth - Disgusting
25. Grand Magus - Triumph And Power
26. Voices - London
27. Skindred - Kill The Power
28. Orange Goblin - Back From The Abyss
29. Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden
30. Messenger - Illusory Blues
31. Xerath - iii
32. Upon A Burning Body - The World Is My Enemy Now
33. The Haunted - Exit Wounds
34. Dwarves - Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll
35. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
36. Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed
37. Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls
38. Hellyeah - Blood For Blood
39. Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
40. Down - Down IV Part II
41. Crowbar - Symmetry In Black
42. Bong - Stoner Rock
43. Blues Pills - Blues Pills
44. Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain
45. Black Moth - Condemned To Hope
46. Black Label Society - Catacombs Of The Black Vatican
47. Bigelf - Into The Maelstrom
48. Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves
49. Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
50. Accept - Blind Rage

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Metal Hammer Albums of 2015
Many Thaanks to Josh Sindell For This List



1. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
2. Faith No More - Sol Invictus
3. Clutch - Psychic Warfare
4. Ghost - Meliora
5. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
6. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
7. Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
8. Killing Joke - Pylon
9. Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang
10. Tesseract - Polaris
11. Slayer - Repentless
12. Parkway Drive - Ire
13. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
14. Deafheaven - New Burmuda
15. Mgła - Exercises In Futility
16. Motörhead - Bad Magic
17. While She Sleeps - Brainwashed
18. Bring Me The Horizon - That's The Spirit
19. Fear Factory - Genexus
20. Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash
21. Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
22. The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy
23. Refused - Freedom
24. Soulfly - Archangel
25. Therapy? - Disquiet
26. Halestorm - Into The Wild Life
27. Enslaved - In Times
28. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
29. Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
30. Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
31. Failure - The Heart Is A Monster
32. Danko Jones - Fire Music
33. Pentagram - Curious Volume
34. Arcturus - Arcturian
35. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
36. Satan - Atom By Atom
37. Baroness - Purple
38. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
39. Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
40. Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
41. Myrkur - M
42. Cancer Bats - Searching For Zero
43. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Blossom
44. Kylesa - Exhausting Fire
45. Svalbard - One Day All This Will End
46. Tremonti - Cauterize
47. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
48. Hate Eternal - Infernus
49. Lucifer - Lucifer I
50. Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War

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Metal Hammer Albums of 2016
Many Thaanks to Josh Sindell For This List


1. Gojira - Magma
2. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
3. Opeth - Sorceress
4. Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
5. Letlive - If I’m The Devil…
6. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
7. Korn - The Serenity Of Suffering
8. Ihsahn - Arktis.
9. Black Peaks - Statues
10. Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct
11. Grand Magus - Sword Songs
12. The Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence
13. Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
14. Deftones - Gore
15. Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
16. Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
17. Katatonia - The Fall Of Heart
18. Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
19. Rotting Christ - Rituals
20. Wardruna - Runaljod – Ragnarok
21. Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
22. Alcest - Kodama
23. Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty
24. Skuggsjá - Skuggsjá
25. Oathbreaker - Rheia
26. Bury Tomorrow - Earthbound
27. Alter Bridge - The Last Hero
28. Dream Theater - The Astonishing
29. Deströyer 666 - Wildfire
30. Babymetal - Metal Resistance
31. Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
32. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
33. Heck - Instructions
34. King 810 - La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God
35. Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter
36. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
37. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
38. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra - Broken Lines
39. Vektor - Terminal Redux
40. Anthrax - For All Kings
41. Kvelertak - Nattesferd
42. Jonestown - Aokigahara
43. Touché Amoré - Stage Four
44. Bölzer - Hero
45. Oceans Of Slumber - Winter
46. Wovenhand - Star Treatment
47. Venom Prison - Animus
48. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
49. Abbath - Abbath
50. Of Mice & Men - Cold World

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Metal Hammer Albums Of 2017

1. Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand
2. Myrkur – Mareridt
3. Code Orange – Forever
4. Enslaved – E
5. Zeal & Ardor – Devil Is Fine
6. Grave Pleasures – Motherblood
7. Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun
8. While She Sleeps – You Are We
9. Paradise Lost – Medusa
10. Converge – The Dusk In Us
11. Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven
12. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
13. Pallbearer – Heartless
14. Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down
15. Anathema – The Optimist
16. Leprous – Malina
17. Creeper – Eternity, In Your Arms
18. Kreator – Gods Of Violence
19. Ulver – The Assassination Of Julius Caesar
20. The Obsessed – Sacred
21. Sólstafir – Berdreyminn
22. Satyricon – Deep Calleth Upon Deep
23. Employed To Serve – The Warmth Of A Dying
24. Amenra – Mass VI
25. Royal Thunder – Wick
26. Trivium – The Sin And The Sentence
27. Prophets Of Rage – Prophets Of Rage
28. Sikth – The Future In Whose Eyes?
29. The Ruins Of Beverast – Exuvia
30. The Contortionist – Clairvoyant
31. Perturbator – New Model
32. Spectral Voice – Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing
33. Full Of Hell – Trumpeting Ecstasy
34. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
35. Body Count – Bloodlust
36. At The Drive-In – In.ter.a.li.a
37. Northlane – Mesmer
38. The Lurking Fear – Out Of The Voiceless Grave
39. Stray From The Path – Only Death Is Real
40. Arch Enemy – Will To Power
41. AFI – AFI (The Blood Album.
42. Elder – Reflections Of A Floating World
43. Threshold – Legends Of The Shire
44. Wear Your Wounds – WYW
45. Horisont -– About Time
46. Cradle Of Filth – Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
47. Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man
48. Alice Cooper – Paranormal
49. Whoredom Rife – Dommedagskvad
50. Accept – The Rise Of Chaos
51. Mutoid Man – War Moans
52. The Great Discord – The Rabbit Hole
53. Disperse – Foreword
54. The Bronx – V
55. Akercocke – Renaissance In Extremis
56. Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation
57. Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora
58. Deep Purple – Infinite
59. Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
60. Iced Earth – Incorruptible
61. Blood Command – Cult Drugs
62. Vuur – In This Moment We Are Free – Cities
63. Immolation – Atonement
64. Tchornobog – Tchornobog
65. Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
66. Dragonforce – Reaching Into Infinity
67. Sons Of Apollo – Psychotic Symphony
68. Ghost Bath – Starmourner
69. Nicole Sabouné – Miman
70. The Haunted – Strength In Numbers
71. Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black
72. Fleurety – The White Death
73. Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth
74. Battle Beast – Bringer Of Pain
75. August Burns Red – Phantom Anthem
76. Caligula’s Horse – In Contact
77. Ho99o9 – United States Of Horror
78. Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
79. H.E.A.T – Into The Great Unknown
80. Helheim – Landawarijar
81. Circle – Terminal
82. Förgjord – Uhripuu
83. Comeback Kid – Outsider
84. Ufomammut – 8
85. Septicflesh – Codex Omega
86. Primus – The Desaturating Seven
87. Pagan Altar – The Room Of Shadows
88. Necromandus – Necromandus
89. Arugs – From Fields Of Fire
90. Blaze Bayley – Endure And Survive
91. Botanist – Collective: The Shape Of He To Come
92. R.I.P – In The Wind
93. Hallatar – No More Stars Upon The Bridge
94. The Night Flight Orchestra – Amber Galactic
95. Betraying The Martyrs – The Resilient
96. Implore – Subjugate
97. Forgotten Tomb – We Owe You Nothing
98. Bokassa – Divide & Conquer
99. Rebirth Of Nefast – Tabernaculum
100. Hey Colossus – The Guillotine