Lists by AJ The Great
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AJ's Ranking Of 2024
Top 50. 8+ish albums.
Only LPs no cover album or re-recordings.
EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Meanstreak, Enforced, Norkturnal Frost, Ixion &…
Only LPs no cover album or re-recordings.
EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Meanstreak, Enforced, Norkturnal Frost, Ixion &…
| 1. | Hamferð - Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk |
| 2. | Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere |
| 3. | Iotunn - Kinship |
| 4. | Ihsahn - Ihsahn |
| 5. | Rezn - Burden |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2005
Top 50 of 2005
Only LPs
Album count: 189
Average rating: 7.08
Only LPs
Album count: 189
Average rating: 7.08
| 1. | Gojira - From Mars To Sirius |
| 2. | Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade |
| 3. | Porcupine Tree - Deadwing |
| 4. | Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? |
| 5. | Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2023
Here is my top 50 for 2023! Only LPs, no re-recording (looking at you brilliant Paradise Lost, Kauan and Cavalera), that I rated 8 and above.
My biggest year yet in number of album I've given an…
My biggest year yet in number of album I've given an…
| 1. | Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light |
| 2. | Saturnus - The Storm Within |
| 3. | Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory |
| 4. | Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite |
| 5. | Enslaved - Heimdal |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of Doom Metal
- From my collection & wishlist (last update)
- One album per band
- Bands & Albums I consider have a strong Doom flavour
- Ranked from best to worst imo
- Everything I know of is there
Let's…
- One album per band
- Bands & Albums I consider have a strong Doom flavour
- Ranked from best to worst imo
- Everything I know of is there
Let's…
| 1. | Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields |
| 4. | My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River |
| 5. | Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields |
| + 59 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2007
Top 50 of 2007. Rated 8+.
Only LPs.
Album count: 193
Average rating: 6.96
Only LPs.
Album count: 193
Average rating: 6.96
| 1. | Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty |
| 3. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| 4. | Rotting Christ - Theogonia |
| 5. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2012
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…
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... |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2013
My top 50 of 2013. Rated 8 and above.
The year we said hello again to Carcass and farewell to Jeff Hanneman
Album count: 150
Average rating: 6.97
The year we said hello again to Carcass and farewell to Jeff Hanneman
Album count: 150
Average rating: 6.97
| 1. | Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn |
| 2. | Carcass - Surgical Steel |
| 3. | Leprous - Coal |
| 4. | Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu |
| 5. | Arx Atrata - Oblivion |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2018
2018 was a great musical year for me as I finally had enough pocket money to satisfy my CD mania... It took me only three decades...
So here is my top 50 of 2018
Album count: 140
Average rating:…
So here is my top 50 of 2018
Album count: 140
Average rating:…
| 1. | Ihsahn - Àmr |
| 2. | Skuggsjá - Hugsjá |
| 3. | Judas Priest - Firepower |
| 4. | At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself |
| 5. | Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2022
Top 50 of this forsaken year from the top to the abyss (but still good). 8 & above
Album count: 329
Average rating: 6.73
Album count: 329
Average rating: 6.73
| 1. | Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North |
| 2. | Sylvaine - Nova |
| 3. | Luminous Vault - Animate The Emptiness |
| 4. | White Ward - False Light |
| 5. | Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2003
Top 50 of 2003
Only LPs.
Album count: 199
Average rating: 7.08
Only LPs.
Album count: 199
Average rating: 7.08
| 1. | Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll |
| 2. | Opeth - Damnation |
| 3. | Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons |
| 4. | Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came |
| 5. | Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2004
Top 50 of 2004
Only LPs
RIP Dimebag!
Album count: 186
Average rating: 7.22
Only LPs
RIP Dimebag!
Album count: 186
Average rating: 7.22
| 1. | Mastodon - Leviathan |
| 2. | Peccatum - Lost In Reverie |
| 3. | Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play |
| 4. | Isis - Panopticon |
| 5. | Enslaved - Isa |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2006
Top 50 of 2006
Only LPs
Album count: 180
Average rating: 7.09
Only LPs
Album count: 180
Average rating: 7.09
| 1. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 2. | Celtic Frost - Monotheist |
| 3. | Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die |
| 4. | Summoning - Oath Bound |
| 5. | Enslaved - Ruun |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2008
Top 50 of 2008. Albums I rated 8 and above.
Album count: 210
Average rating: 6.84
Album count: 210
Average rating: 6.84
| 1. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 2. | Opeth - Watershed |
| 3. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 4. | Ihsahn - AngL |
| 5. | Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2009
Top 50 of albums I rated 8 and above.
Album count: 222
Average rating: 6.96
Album count: 222
Average rating: 6.96
| 1. | Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans |
| 2. | Insomnium - Across The Dark |
| 3. | Fen - The Malediction Fields |
| 4. | Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs |
| 5. | Isis - Wavering Radiant |
| + 45 more |
AJ's Ranking Of 2010
My Top 50, albums rated 8 & above. Only LPs
RIP: Ronnie James Dio
Album count: 206
Average rating: 6.84
RIP: Ronnie James Dio
Album count: 206
Average rating: 6.84
| 1. | Alcest - Écailles De Lune |
| 2. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 3. | Ihsahn - After |
| 4. | Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent |
| 5. | Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards |
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