METALOVÁ ALBA

Best metal 2019:

1. BEAST IN BLACK - From Hell With Love ( melodic heavy/power metal , FIN )
2. DARKEND - Spiritual Resonance ( symphonic black metal , ITA )

Best metal 2018:

1. KATAKLYSM - Meditations ( death metal , CAN )
2. JUNGLE ROT - Jungle Rot ( death metal , USA )
3. BRAINSTORM - Midnight Ghost ( power metal , GER )
4. FOLLOW THE CIPHER - Follow The Cipher ( symphonic power metal , SWE )
5. CREMATORY - Oblivion ( industrial/gothic metal , GER )

Best metal 2017:

1. KREATOR - Gods Of Violence ( thrash metal , GER )
2. BEAST IN BLACK - Berserker ( melodic heavy/power metal , FIN )
3. ORDEN OGAN - Gunmen ( power metal , GER )
4. SAMAEL - Hegemony ( industrial metal , SWI )
5. GOD DETHRONED - The World Ablaze ( death metal , HOL )
6. THE HAUNTED - Strength In Numbers ( melodic death metal , SWE )

Best metal 2016:

1. SERPENTINE DOMINION - Serpentine Dominion ( death metal , USA )
2. AXEL RUDI PELL - Game Of Sins ( heavy/power metal , GER )
3. BORKNAGAR - Winter Thrice ( black metal , NOR )
4. EREB ALTOR - Blot - Ilt - Taut ( viking black metal , SWE )
5. EXUMER - The Raging Tides ( thrash metal , GER )
6. OBSCENITY - Retaliation ( death metal , GER )
7. TESTAMENT - Brotherhood Of The Snake ( thrash metal , USA )
8. SUICIDAL ANGELS - Division Of Blood ( thrash metal , GRE )

Best metal 2015:

1. ENSIFERUM - One Man Army ( symphonic folk metal , FIN )
2. GRUESOME - Savage Land ( death metal , USA )
3. SLAYER - Repentless ( thrash metal , USA )
4. AMORPHIS - Under The Red Cloud ( melodic metal , FIN )

Best metal 2014:

1. EPICA - The Quantum Enigma ( symphonic power metal , HOL )
2. BLOODBOUND - Stormborn ( heavy/power metal , SWE )
3. GAMMA RAY - Empire Of The Undead ( power/speed metal , GER )
4. INSOMNIUM - Shadows Of The Dying Sun ( melodic death metal , FIN )
5. PRIMAL FEAR - Delivering The Black ( heavy metal , GER )
6. ICED EARTH - Plagues Of Babylon ( power metal , USA )
7. OBITUARY - Inked In Blood ( death metal , USA )
8. MASSACRE - Back From Beyond ( death metal , USA )
9. SANCTUARY - The Year The Sun Died ( groove/progressive power metal , USA )
10. DRAGONFORCE - Maximum Overload ( power metal , ENG )
11. EXODUS - Blood In Blood Out ( thrash metal , USA )

Best metal 2013:

1. STRATOVARIUS - Nemesis ( melodic power metal , FIN )
2. SIRENIA - Perils Of The Deep Blue ( symphonic gothic metal , NOR )
3. MERCENARY - Through Our Darkest Days ( melodic death/power metal , DEN )
4. EVILE - Skull ( thrash metal , ENG )
5. ONSLAUHGT - VI ( thrash metal , ENG )
6. EREB ALTOR - Fire Meets Ice ( epic viking black metal , SWE )
7. HYPOCRISY - End Of Disclosure ( death metal , SWE )
8. HAIL OF BULLETS - III: The Rommel Chronicles ( death metal , HOL )
9. SOILWORK - The Living Infinite ( melodic metal core , SWE )
10. SIX FEET UNDER - Unborn ( death metal , USA )
11. ROTTING CHRIST - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy ( gothic/black metal , GRE )
12. TAD MOROSE - Revenant ( power/heavy metal , SWE )
13. NECROPHOBIC - Womb Of Lilithu ( death/black metal , SWE )
14. SUMMONING - Old Mornings Dawn ( epic/atmospheric black metal , RAK )

Best metal 2012:

1. EX DEO - Caligvla ( symphonic death metal , CAN )
2. DELAIN - We Are The Others ( symphonic gothic metal , HOL )
3. DORO - Raise Your Fist ( heavy metal , GER )
4. BEFORE THE DOWN - Rise Of The Phoenix ( melodic death metal , FIN )
5. CANNIBAL CORPSE - Torture ( death metal , USA)

Best metal 2011:

1. ARCH ENEMY - Khaos Legions ( melodic death metal , SWE )
2. AMON AMARTH - Surtur Rising ( melodic death metal , SWE )
3. SEPTIC FLESH - The Great Mass ( atmospheric death metal , GRE )
4. NIGHTWISH - Imaginaerum ( symphonic power metal , FIN )
5. AMORPHIS - The Beginning Of Times ( melodic metal , FIN )
6. SERENITY - Death & Legacy ( progressive power metal , RAK )
7. LEGION OF THE DAMNED - Descent Into Chaos ( thrash metal , HOL )
8. ANTHRAX - Worship Music ( thrash metal , USA )
9. NORTHER - Circle Regenerated ( melodic death metal , FIN )
10. TURISAS - Stand Up And Fight ( folk/symphonic metal , FIN )
11. MOONSORROW - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa (folk/pagan/black metal , FIN)
12. DRACONIAN - A Rose For The Apocalypse ( gothic/doom metal , SWE )
13. MORTAL SIN - Psychology Of Death ( thrash metal , AUS )
14. ARAKAIN - Homo Sapiens..? ( power/thrash metal , CZ )
15. SSOGE - Návaz ( doom/folk metal , CZ )
16. CRIMFALL - The Writ Of Sword ( symphonic power/viking/folk metal , FIN )

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Best metal 2010:

1. ROTTING CHRIST - Aealo ( black/dark metal , GRE )
2. EXODUS - Exhibit B: The Human Condition ( thrash metal , USA )
3. AVANTASIA - The Wicked Symphony ( symphonic power metal , GER )
4. EREB ALTOR - The End ( epic doom metal , SWE )
5. FINNTROLL - Nifelvind ( folk/black metal , FIN )
6. KEEP OF KALESSIN - Reptilian ( melodic black/death metal , NOR )
7. ELUVEITIE - Everything Remains As It Never Was ( folk/melodic death metal , SWI )
8. SUICIDAL ANGELS - Dead Again ( thrash metal , GRE )
9. HAIL OF BULLETS - On Divine Winds ( death metal , HOL )
10. KATAKLYSM - Heaven's Venom ( death metal , CAN )
11. EDENBRIDGE - Solitaire ( symphonic power metal , AUT )
12. EQUILIBRIUM - Rekreatur ( epic folk/viking metal , GER )
13. OVERKILL - Ironbound ( thrash metal , USA )
14. MORTEMIA - Misere Mortem ( gothic metal , NOR )
15. ACCEPT - Blood Of The Nations ( heavy metal , GER )
16. CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED - Charred Walls Of The Damned ( power , USA )
17. FORBIDDEN - Omega Wave ( thrash metal , USA )
18. INSIDIOUS DISEASE - Shadowcast ( death metal , NOR )
19. FEAR FACTORY - Mechanize ( cyber metal , USA )
20. GOD DETHRONED - Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross ( death metal , HOL )

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Best metal 2009:

1. HYPOCRISY - A Taste of Extreme Divinity ( melodic death metal , SWE )
2. KREATOR - Hordes Of Chaos ( thrash metal , GER )
3. IMMORTAL - All Shall Fall ( black metal , NOR )
4. PANDEMIA - Feet Of Anger ( death metal , CZ )
5. SLAYER - World Painted Blood ( thrash metal , USA )
6. TRAIL OF TEARS - Bloodstained Endurance ( symphonic gothic/black metal , NOR )
7. AMORPHIS - Skyforger ( melodic metal , FIN )
8. CANNIBAL CORPSE - Evisceration Plague ( brutal death metal , USA )
9. ARTILLERY - When Death Comes ( thrash metal , DEN )
10. BEHEMOTH - Evangelion ( black/death metal , POL )
11. HEATHEN - The Evolution Of Chaos ( speed/thrash metal , USA )
12. GRAVEWORM - Diabolical Figures ( melodic black/death/gothic metal , ITA )
13. SIRENIA - The 13th Floor ( gothic metal , NOR )
14. TENET - Sovereign ( death/thrash metal , CAN )
15. ENSIFERUM - From Afar ( viking folk metal , FIN )
16. ELUVEITIE - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion ( folk/melodic death metal , SWI )
17. NILE - Those Whom The Gods Detest ( brutal death metal , USA )
18. LOST SOUL - Immerse In Infinity ( technical death metal , POL )
19. NAPALM DEATH - Time Waits For No Slave ( grind core , UK )
20. NIGHTMARE - Insurrection ( heavy/power metal , FRA )
21. BLOODBOUND - Tabula Rasa ( heavy/power metal , SWE )
22. BELPHEGOR - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn ( death/black metal , AUT )
23. ARKONA - Goi, Rode, Goi!!! ( pagan/folk metal , RUS )
24. PESTILENCE - Resurrection Macabre ( death metal , HOL )
25. DELAIN - April Rain ( melodic/symphonic/gothic metal , HOL )
26. DARK FUNERAL - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus ( black metal , SWE )
27. VADER - Necropolis (death metal , POL)
28. FAIRYLAND - Score To A New Beginning (symphonic power metal , FRA)
29. CANDLEMASS - Death Magic Doom ( epic/heavy/doom metal , SWE )
30. SOULFALLEN - Grave New World ( melodic black/death metal , FIN )
31. STRATOVARIUS - Polaris ( melodic power metal , FIN )
32. THUNDERSTONE - Dirt Metal ( power metal , FIN )
33. SAMAEL - Above ( atmospheric black metal , SWI )
34. GHOST BRIGADE - Isolation Songs ( melodic death/progressive metal , FIN )

Best metal 2008:

1. KATAKLYSM - Prevail ( death metal , CAN )
2. SEPTIC FLESH - Communion ( atmospheric/death metal , GRE )
3. HYPOCRISY - Catch 22 (V 2.0.08) ( melodic death metal , SWE )
4. LEGION OF THE DAMNED - Feel The Blade ( thrash/death metal , HOL )
5. AMON AMARTH - Twilight of the Thunder God ( death metal , SWE )
6. CRADLE OF FILTH - Godspeed On The Devils Thunder ( black/gothic metal , UK )
7. ELUVEITIE - Slania ( folk/melodic death metal , SWI )
8. NORTHER - N ( melodic death/power metal , FIN )
9. SABATON - The Art Of War ( power metal , SWE )
10. MOONSORROW - Tulimyrsky ( viking/folk/black metal , FIN )
11. AVANTASIA - The Scarecrow ( symphonic power metal , GER )
12. STORMWARRIOR - Heading Northe ( power/speed metal , GER )
13. KIUAS - The New Dark Age ( power metal , FIN )
14. UNLEASHED - Hammer Battalion ( death metal , SWE )
15. FIREWIND - The Premonition ( power/speed metal , GRE )
16. EVERGREY - Torn ( progressive/power metal , SWE )
17. LORD BELIAL - The Black Curse ( black metal , SWE )
18. BELPHEGOR - Bondage Goat Zombie ( death/black metal , AUT )
19. HEAVENWOOD - Redemption ( gothic metal , POR )
20. HAIL OF BULLETS - Of Frost And War ( death metal , HOL )
21. DRACONIAN - Turning Season Within ( gothic/doom metal , SWE )

Best metal 2007:

1. ARCH ENEMY - Rise Of The Tyrant ( melodic death metal , SWE )
2. ROTTING CHRIST - Theogonia ( black/dark metal , GRE )
3. NIGHTWISH - Dark Passion Play ( symphonic power metal , FIN )
4. LEGION OF THE DAMNED - Sons Of The Jackal ( thrash/death metal , HOL )
5. KORPIKLAANI - Tervaskanto ( folk metal , FIN )
6. EXODUS - The Atrocity Exhibition…Exhibit A ( thrash metal , USA )
7. FINNTROLL - Ur Jordens Djup ( folk/black metal , FIN )
8. SIRENIA - Nine Destines And A Downfall ( gothic metal , NOR )
9. WITHIN TEMPTATION - The Heart Of Everything ( symphonic gothic metal , HOL )
10. TURISAS - The Varangian Way ( folk symphonic metal , FIN )
11. SWALLOW THE SUN - Hope ( melodic doom/death/black metal , FIN )
12. NOVEMBERS DOOM - The Novella Reservoir ( death/doom metal , USA )
13. EPICA - The Divine Conspiracy ( symphonic power/gothic metal , HOL )

Best metal 2006:

1. KATAKLYSM - In The Arms Of Devastation ( death metal , CAN )
2. SABATON - Attero Dominatus ( power metal , SWE )
3. LORDI - Arockalypse ( heavy metal , FIN )
4. LEGION OF THE DAMNED - Malevolent Rapture ( thrash/death metal , HOL )
5. ANGTORIA - God Has A Plan For Us All ( gothic metal , SWE )
6. SLAYER - Christ Illusion ( thrash metal , USA )
7. HEAVENLY - Virus ( speed/power metal , FRA )
8. RASTA - The Age Of Movement ( melodic death metal , BLR )
9. CANNIBAL CORPSE - Kill ( death metal , USA )
10. COMMUNIC - Waves Of Visual Decay ( progressive heavy/power metal , NOR )
11. KORPIKLAANI - Tales Along This Road ( folk metal , FIN )

Best metal 2005:

1. ARCH ENEMY - Doomsday Machine ( melodic death metal , SWE )
2. HYPOCRISY - Virus ( melodic death metal , SWE )
3. HAMMERFALL - Chapter V:Unbent,Unbowed,Unbroken ( heavy/power metal , SWE )
4. BRAINSTORM - Liquid Monster ( power metal , GER )
5. STRATOVARIUS - Stratovarius ( melodic power metal , FIN )
6. ADOR DORATH - Symbols ( melodic gothic/black metal , CZ )
7. GRAVEWORM - (N)Utopia ( melodic black/death/gothic metal , ITA )
8. GRAVE DIGGER - The Last Supper ( heavy/speed metal , GER )
9. BOLT THROWER - Those Once Loyal ( death metal , UK )
10. GAMMA RAY - Majestic ( power/speed metal , GER )
11. NEVERMORE - This Godless Endeavor ( power/thrash metal , USA )

Best metal 2004:

1. NIGHTWISH - Once ( symphonic metal , FIN )
2. SONATA ARCTICA - Reckoning Night ( power metal , FIN )
3. WINTERSUN - Wintersun ( epic/melodic black metal , FIN )
4. HYPOCRISY - The Arrival ( death metal , SWE )
5. WITHIN TEMPTATION - The Silent Force ( gothic metal , HOL )
6. EDGUY - Hellfire Club ( heavy/speed metal , GER )
7. RHAPSODY - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret ( symphonic power metal , ITA )
8. ICED EARTH - The Glorious Burden ( power/thrash metal , USA )
9. NOCTURNAL RITES - New World Messiah ( power metal , SWE )
10. NORTHER - Death Unlimited ( melodic death/power metal , FIN )
11. AFTER FOREVER - Invisible Circles ( symphonic/gothic metal , HOL )
12. DIONYSUS - Anima Mundi ( power metal , SWE )

Best metal 2003:

1. DIMMU BORGIR - Death Cult Armageddon ( melodic symphonic black metal , NOR )
2. GRAVE DIGGER - Rheingold ( heavy metal , GER )
3. GRAVEWORM - Engraved In Black ( melodic black/death/gothic metal , ITA )
4. MASTERPLAN - Masterplan ( power metal , GER )
5. STRATOVARIUS - Elements Part II ( melodic power metal , FIN )
6. SWALLOW THE SUN - The Morning Never Came ( melodic doom/death/black metal , FIN )
7. XANDRIA - Kill the Sun ( gothic metal , GER )

Best metal 2002:

1. HAMMERFALL - Crimson Thunder ( heavy metal , SWE )
2. NIGHTWISH - Century Child ( symphonic metal , FIN )
3. RHAPSODY - Power Of The Dragonflame ( symphonic power metal , ITA )
4. ANGEL DUST - Of Human Bondage ( melodic power metal , GER )

Best metal 2001:

1. GAMMA RAY - No World Order ( power/speed metal , GER )
2. AVANTASIA - The Metal Opera Pt.I ( symphonic heavy/power metal , GER )
3. GODGORY - Way Beyond ( melodic death metal , SWE )
4. RHAPSODY - Rain Of A Thousand Flames ( symphonic power metal , ITA )
5. GRAVEWORM - Scourge Of Malice ( melodic black/gothic metal , ITA )

Best metal 2000:

1. HAMMERFALL - Renegade ( heavy metal , SWE )
2. WITHIN TEMPTATION - Mother Earth ( symphonic metal , HOL )

Best metal 1999:

1. DIMMU BORGIR - Spiritual Black Dimensions ( symphonic black metal , NOR )
2. SIX FEET UNDER - Maximum Violence ( death metal , USA )

Best metal 1998:

1. ARCH ENEMY - Stigmata ( melodic death metal , SWE )
2. HAMMERFALL - Legacy Of Kings ( heavy metal , SWE )
3. RUNNING WILD - The Rivalry ( heavy/power/speed metal , GER )
4. DEATH - The Sound Of Perseverance ( death metal , USA )
5. SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Behind The Shadows ( doom/folk metal , CZ )
6. BOLT THROWER - Mercenary ( death metal , ENG )

Best metal 1997:

1. DIMMU BORGIR - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant ( symphonic black metal , NOR )
2. ROTTING CHRIST - A Dead Poem ( black/gothic metal , GRE )
3. HAMMERFALL - Glory To The Brave ( heavy metal , SWE )
4. DEICIDE - Serpents Of The Light ( death metal , USA )
5. WITHIN TEMPTATION - Enter ( symphonic metal , HOL )

Best metal 1996:

1. KING DIAMOND - The Graveyard ( heavy metal , DEN )
2. SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Iron ( doom/folk metal , CZ )

Best metal 1995:

1. DEATH - Symbolic ( death metal , USA )
2. GAMMA RAY - Land Of The Free ( power/speed metal , GER )
3. KING DIAMOND - The Spider's Lullabye ( heavy metal , DAN )
4. BLIND GUARDIAN - Imaginations From The Other Side ( speed/power metal , GER )
5. AT THE GATES - Slaughter Of The Soul ( melodic death metal , SWE )
6. DEICIDE - Once Upon The Cross ( death metal , USA )
7. FEAR FACTORY - Demanufacture ( industrial/death metal , USA )
8. CREMATORY - Illusions ( gothic death/metal , GER )
9. BENEDICTION - The Dreams You Dread ( death metal , UK )
10. PARADISE LOST - Draconian Times ( doom/death metal , UK )
11. MY DYING BRIDE - The Angel And The Dark River ( doom metal , UK )
12. MOONSPELL - Wolfheart ( black/gothic metal , POR )
13. LAKE OF TEARS - Headstones ( progressive doom/gothic metal , SWE )
14. NEMBRIONIC - Psycho One Hundred ( death metal , HOL )
15. DEBUSTROL - Vyhlazení ( thrash metal , CZ )

Best metal 1994:

1. AMORPHIS - Tales From The Thousand Lakes ( melodic death metal , FIN )
2. HYPOCRISY - The Fourth Dimension ( death metal , SWE )
3. TIAMAT - Imaginations From The Other Side ( doom metal , SWE )
4. MACHINE HEAD - Burn My Eyes ( thrash metal , USA )

Best metal 1993:

1. MY DYING BRIDE - Turn Loose The Swans ( doom/death metal , UK )
2. CARCASS - Heartwork ( death metal , UK )
3. SEPULTURA - Chaos A.D. ( thrash metal , BRA )
4. MORGOTH - Odium ( death metal , GER )
5. HYPOCRISY - Osculum Obscenum ( death metal , SWE )
6. SINISTER - Diabolical Summoning ( death metal , HOL )
7. DEAD HEAD - Dream Deceiver ( thrash metal , HOL )

Best metal 1992:

1. OBITUARY - The End Complete ( death metal , USA )
2. BLIND GUARDIAN - Somewhere Far Beyond ( speed metal , GER )
3. BOLT THROWER - The IVth Crusade ( death metal , UK )
4. KRABATHOR - Only Our Death Is Welcome... ( death metal , CZ )
5. ROOT - The Temple In The Underworld ( epic/black metal , CZ )
6. MANOWAR - The Triumph Of Steel ( heavy metal , USA )
7. DEICIDE - Legion ( death metal , USA )
8. MALEVOLENT CREATION - Retribution ( death metal , USA )

Best metal 1991:

1. PESTILENCE - Testimony Of The Ancients ( death metal , HOL )
2. SEPULTURA - Arise ( thrash/death metal , BRA )
3. BATHORY - Twilight Of The Gods ( epic black/viking metal , SWE )
4. DEBUSTROL - Neuropatolog ( thrash metal , CZ )
5. ARAKAIN - Schizofrenie ( thrash metal , CZ )
6. CORONER - Mental Vortex ( technical thrash metal , SWI )

Best metal 1990:

1. BATHORY - Hammerheart ( black/viking/epic metal , SWE )
2. KREATOR - Coma Of Souls ( thrash metal , GER )
3. SLAYER - Seasons In The Abyss ( thrash metal , USA )
4. JUDAS PRIEST - Painkiller ( heavy metal , UK )
5. DEATH - Spiritual Healing ( death metal , USA )
6. CANNIBAL CORPSE - Eaten Back To Life ( death metal , USA )
7. DEICIDE - Deicide ( death metal , USA )
8. ROOT - Zjeveni ( black metal , CZ )
9. SACRED REICH - The American Way ( thrash metal , USA )
10. VITACIT - Vzhůru přes oceán ( heavy metal , CZ )
11. PUNGENT STENCH - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh ( death metal , RAK )
10. KREYSON - Anděl na útěku ( heavy metal , CZ )