Nostalgic year for me. My all-time favorite album and many others I still listen to regularly came out this year. I also graduated high school. Fun stuff.

1.Anathema - Weather Systems

2.Celldweller - Wish Upon A Blackstar

3.Swans - The Seer

4.Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

5.Netra - Sørbyen

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1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

4.Lamb Of God - Resolution

5.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

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1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

3.Draconian - Sovran

4.Gojira - Fortitude

5.Gojira - Magma

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Because Whales…

1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

2.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

3.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

4.Gojira - Magma

5.Gojira - Fortitude

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010…

1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Caliban - I Am Nemesis

3.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

4.Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever

5.Parkway Drive - Atlas

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Here's is my ranking of all the Gojira albums from best to worst. I also added my rating for each album. This of course is just my opinion.

1.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

2.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

3.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

4.Gojira - Fortitude

5.Gojira - Terra Incognita

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In progress top 300 albums in alphabetical order…

1.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

2.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Acid Witch - Stoned

5.Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers

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1.Asphyx - The Rack

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Obituary - Slowly We Rot

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My personal picks for albums that makes my mind wander. Also a good list for anyone getting into metal.

1.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

5.Dark Tranquillity - Character

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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…

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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My top 50 of the year. Rated 8 & Above

Alcest, Gojira, Les discrets and Blut Aus Nord make the french connection . Allez les bleus!

Black Sabbath announced their reunion, Wintersun reappeared…

1.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

2.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

3.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

4.Cult Of Fire - Triumvirát

5.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

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Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘…

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel

2.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

3.Abbath - Abbath

4.Acid Witch - Rot Among Us

5.Æther Realm - Tarot

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This is an alphabetical list of interesting instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups…

1.Anathema - Eternity

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Arch Enemy - Will To Power

5.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

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1.Avantasia - Death Is Just A Feeling

2.Dream Theater - Beneath The Surface

3.Evergrey - Free

4.Firewind - Edge Of A Dream

5.Myrath - Sour Sigh

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These are my favorite metal albums in no particular order.

1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

2.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

3.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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