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Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)

Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music genres. It also makes it an ever changing and growing genre.

Also, before you guys flood me, yes my list contains a lot of Industrial & Nu Metal bands, as well as other genre.. As far as I'm concerned, my picks all fit quite well in the scope of an alternative metal list. Don't you agree? Wait... You disagree? Well, let's agree to disagree and move on.

As for the list itself, I'm going to try and list through time what I (me, myself & moi) consider as essential alternative albums. I will also limit myself to a maximum of 4 releases each year to prevent a messy list, which often makes it a difficult decision, especially in the early 2000's. So yes, it is possible your personal favourite won't be featured. You can tell me all about it in the comments below and we can discuss it, even argue it.

Now, have fun, enjoy my list and let me know what you think or would personally put in your favourite alt-metal list!

-Guib-

EDIT: I will now add my pick for best album of each year using the (best of xxxx) in the chosen album's description.

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Guib's Best Alternative Metal Album Picks

Best Of 2022
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die

Best Of 2023
Mutoid Man - Mutants

Best of 2024 So Far
...tbd

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Last Updated: March 27th, 2024

1.Living Colour - Vivid
2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
3.Faith No More - The Real Thing
4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner
5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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Created by Guib on 20.08.2023



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Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums

This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly

To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative Metal" by MS. So for example the three most recent Gojira albums count, but early Gojira does not.

The band must have more than 10 fans on MS

Therefore this is not a reflection of my opinions, rather a reflection of numbers so if you wanna get mad, get mad at the numbers, not me. And remember that this really isn't that serious

1.Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction
2.Tool - Lateralus
3.The Butterfly Effect - IV
4.Tool - Ænima
5.Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix

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Created by Wildebean on 05.04.2023



TOP 100 (2021)

1.Archspire - Bleed The Future
2.Gojira - Fortitude
3.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
4.Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
5.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

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Created by Killian on 20.08.2022



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MSA 2021 All Write-ins - Best Albums By Genre

For those interested in suggestions of albums by genre

Removed:
- Trolls
- Limp bizkit outside of Alternative category
- albums already nominated. After the results, I will add the nominated albums that don't receive enough votes to be displayed in the results, as "staff write-ins".
- albums with a release date not in 2021

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2.Heleven - Into The Oceans
3.Imminence - Heaven In Hiding
4.Lantlôs - Wildhund
5.Leprous - Aphelion

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Created by Maxder on 28.02.2022



2021: The Final Countdown

Metallic World War 2021

2017 champions Archspire want to defend their leadership (strategy: we raze you with more BPM), while Dvne (3rd place in 2017) and Rivers of Nihil (3rd place in 2018) enhance their sonic arsenal by forcefully declaring war on sovereigns; however, the battlefield is filled with loose mines that could explode and blow everything up, ultra-technical mines called Inferi, Deviant Process and First Fragment (brand: Dominic Forest Lapointe). From afar, cautious and silent, veterans named Carcass, Dream Theater and Mastodon lurk. Steffen Kummurer of Obscura (3rd place in 2009, 2nd place in 2011, 6th place in 2016, 7th place in 2018) warrior experienced and reliable, re-sheaths his most powerful weapons (Jeroen Paul Thesseling and Christian Muenzner, champion with the Alkaloid in 2018) and prepares for the final assault on the Throne of Metal. The 2012 champions, Between the Buried and Me, dethroned but never tamed, take the field recalling the glorious colors of the past to regain what is rightfully theirs.

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka
3.Archspire - Bleed The Future
4.Obscura - A Valediction
5.Mastodon - Hushed And Grim

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Created by RockwiththeDoc on 01.02.2022



Mid Year Report '21

A personal ranking of what I think are the best records to have come out so far in '21.

1.Asphyx - Necroceros
2.White Void - Anti
3.Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water
4.Molten - Dystopian Syndrome
5.At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being

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Created by omne metallum on 10.07.2021



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Top 100 albums 2021

1.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
2.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
3.Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4.Leprous - Aphelion
5.Soen - Imperial

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Created by Angryfarruh on 01.07.2021



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2021 - The Worthy Ones

2021 albums that I enjoyed so far, a lot more coming, obviously a work in progress

1.Wheel - Resident Human
2.Needlepoint - Walking up That Valley
3.Sur Austru - Obârşie
4.Dordeduh - Har
5.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

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Created by JoHn Doe on 17.06.2021



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Top 2021

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

1.Archspire - Bleed The Future
2.The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
3.Bloodred Hourglass - Your Highness
4.Thy Catafalque - Vadak
5.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

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Created by Liafev on 11.02.2021



Stumbling Through 2021 Jan-March

Albums I've listened to released between January - March

1.Soen - Imperial
2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka
3.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen
4.Cult Of Luna - The Raging River
5.Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void

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Created by LifelikeAdvisor on 05.02.2021



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2021: Jan-Jun

After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who TF knows when we might return to a semblance of normality. Until then, I'll be trying to make sure that nothing noteworthy passes my radar.

1.Vulgaris - Asundre
2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka
3.Heliocentric - Ishmael
4.Decline Of The I - Johannes
5.Dordeduh - Har

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Created by musclassia on 24.01.2021



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2021 Album Ranking

1.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
4.Grima - Rotten Garden
5.Gojira - Fortitude

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Created by Anghellic67 on 01.01.2021