Went year by year on RYM to see what they consider the best metal album of the year, here's the results:>1970: Black Sabbath - Paranoid>1971: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality>1972: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4>1973: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath>1974: Budgie - In for the Kill!>1975: Black Sabbath - Sabotage>1976: Rainbow - Rising>1977: Judas Priest - Sin After Sin>1978: Judas Priest - Stained Class>1979: Motorhead - Overkill>1980: Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell>1981: Iron Maiden - Killers>1982: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast >1983: Dio - Holy Diver >1984: Metallica - Ride the Lightning>1985: Slayer - Hell Awaits>1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets>1987: Candlemass - Nightfall>1988: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son>1989: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
>>123588993Literally all diapershit.
>>123588993>1990: Megadeth - Rust in Peace>1991: Death - Human>1992: Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine>1993: Death - Individual Thought Patterns>1994: Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley>1995: Death - Symbolic>1996: Cryptopsy - None So Vile>1997: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk>1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance>1999: Opeth - Still Life>2000: Deftones - White Pony>2001: System of a Down - Toxicity>2002: Agalloch - The Mantle>2003: Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker->2004: Isis - Panopticon>2005: Gojira - From Mars to Sirus>2006: Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain>2007: Gris - Il était une forêt...>2008: Inanna - Converging Ages>2009: Mastodon - Crack the Skye
>>123589064>2010: Deathspell Omega - Paracletus>2011: Elder - Dead Roots Stirring>2012: Deftones - Koi no yokan>2013: Gorguts - Colored Sands>2014: Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall>2015: Mgla - Exercises in Futility>2016: Vektor - Terminal Redux>2017: Converge - The Dusk in Us>2018: The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic>2019: Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race>2020: Demoniac - So It Goes>2021: Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion>2022: Chat Pile - God's Country>2023: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless DamnationSo far for 2024, the metal album is Exhaust by Pyrrhon, followed closely by Cutting the Throat of God by Ulcerate
>>123589024Then provide what you think should be the top of the list buddy.
>Altars of MadnessI dont get it
>>123589064>all those Death albums I'm not too familiar with RYM, but this is enough to prevent me from ever visiting that site again.
>no 2006: As Daylight Diesfucking boomers shitting up my /mu/ again
>>123589569bayzed2 bayzsed
I love Deftones
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>>123589064Their taste goes so shit into the 90s.
>>123591217You must have missed the OP if that's what you really think.
>>123589064>Opeth - Still LifeI politely disagree
>>123589467Don't ever go anywhere in proximity to metalheads again, in that case
>>123589138>>2023: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnationjust fucking lol.