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http://loudwire.com/best-hard-rock-album-each-year/
http://loudwire.com/best-metal-album-ea ... ince-1970/

Re-posting the metal list and adding the hard rock list.

Metal:
2016: Devin Townsend Project, 'Transcendence'
2015: Iron Maiden, 'The Book of Souls'
2014: Behemoth, 'The Satanist'
2013: Gorguts, 'Colored Sands'
2012: Between the Buried and Me, 'The Parallax II: Future Sequence'
2011: Septicflesh, 'The Great Mass'
2010: Ghost, 'Opus Eponymous'
2009: Mastodon, 'Crack the Skye'
2008: Meshuggah, 'obZen'
2007: Between the Buried and Me, 'Colors'
2006: Mastodon, 'Blood Mountain'
2005: Opeth, 'Ghost Reveries'
2004: Mastodon, 'Leviathan'
2003: Children of Bodom, 'Hate Crew Deathroll'
2002: Agalloch, 'The Mantle'
2001: Tool, 'Lateralus'
2000: Iron Maiden, 'Brave New World'
1999: The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'Calculating Infinity'
1998: Death, 'The Sound of Perseverance'
1997: Emperor, 'Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk'
1996: Tool, 'Ænima'
1995: At the Gates, 'Slaughter of the Soul'
1994: Pantera, 'Far Beyond Driven'
1993: Type O Negative, 'Bloody Kisses'
1992: Pantera, 'Vulgar Display of Power'
1991: Metallica, 'Metallica' (a.k.a. 'The Black Album')
1990: Megadeth, 'Rust in Peace'
1989: Morbid Angel, 'Altars of Madness'
1988: Queensryche, 'Operation: Mindcrime'
1987: King Diamond, 'Abigail'
1986: Metallica, 'Master of Puppets'
1985: Exodus, 'Bonded by Blood'
1984: Iron Maiden, 'Powerslave'
1983: Dio, 'Holy Diver'
1982: Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast'
1981: Ozzy Osbourne, 'Diary of a Madman'
1980: Black Sabbath, 'Heaven and Hell'
1979: Motorhead, 'Overkill'
1978: Judas Priest, 'Stained Class'
1977: Scorpions, 'Taken By Force'
1976: Judas Priest, 'Sad Wings of Destiny'
1975: Black Sabbath, 'Sabotage'
1974: Budgie, 'In for the Kill'
1973: Black Sabbath, 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'
1972: Black Sabbath, 'Vol. 4'
1971: Black Sabbath, 'Master of Reality'
1970: Black Sabbath, 'Paranoid'

Hard Rock:
2016: Highly Suspect, 'The Boy Who Died Wolf'
2015: Halestorm, 'Into the Wild Life'
2014: Chevelle, 'La Gargola'
2013: Queens of the Stone Age, '... Like Clockwork'
2012: Deftones, 'Koi No Yokan'
2011: Foo Fighters, 'Wasting Light'
2010: Deftones, 'Diamond Eyes'
2009: Alice in Chains, 'Black Gives Way to Blue'
2008: Shinedown, 'The Sound of Madness'
2007: Linkin Park, 'Minutes to Midnight'
2006: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'Stadium Arcadium'
2005: Disturbed, 'Ten Thousand Fists'
2004: Green Day, 'American Idiot'
2003: AFI, 'Sing the Sorrow'
2002: Queens of the Stone Age, 'Songs for the Deaf'
2001: Incubus, 'Morning View'
2000: Linkin Park, 'Hybrid Theory'
1999: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'Californication'
1998: Korn, 'Follow the Leader'
1997: Foo Fighters, 'The Colour and the Shape'
1996: Rage Against the Machine, 'Evil Empire'
1995: Smashing Pumpkins, 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'
1994: Green Day, 'Dookie'
1993: Pearl Jam, 'Vs.'
1992: Alice in Chains, 'Dirt'
1991: Nirvana, 'Nevermind'
1990: Fugazi, 'Repeater'
1989: Nine Inch Nails, 'Pretty Hate Machine'
1988: Jane's Addiction, 'Nothing's Shocking'
1987: Guns N' Roses, 'Appetite for Destruction'
1986: Bon Jovi, 'Slippery When Wet'
1985: Rites of Spring, 'Rites of Spring'
1984: Van Halen, '1984'
1983: Def Leppard, 'Pyromania'
1982: Misfits, 'Walk Among Us'
1981: Rush, 'Moving Pictures'
1980: AC/DC, 'Back in Black'
1979: The Clash, 'London Calling'
1978: Van Halen, 'Van Halen'
1977: Sex Pistols, 'Never Mind the Bollocks ... Here's the Sex Pistols'
1976: Ramones, 'Ramones'
1975: Aerosmith, 'Toys in the Attic'
1974: KISS, 'KISS'
1973: Iggy and the Stooges, 'Raw Power'
1972: Deep Purple, 'Machine Head'
1971: Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV'
1970: Led Zeppelin, 'III'
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Question, now that they've been declared eligible: how do I denote them on the albums spreadsheet? I'm gonna make a project of that (between this, the UCR lists, the Radio X lists, and the Masterpiece Reviews, I have my work cut out for me), and should I just put a "1" for each entry (like the unranked lists) or should I put the year that they're representing?
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"1" is what I need. Please post them as separate lists. Thanks!
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Henrik wrote:"1" is what I need. Please post them as separate lists. Thanks!
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The Metal list was updated a month ago, additing recent years.
2017: Power Trip, 'Nightmare Logic'
2018: Sleep, 'The Sciences'
2019: Tool, 'Fear Inoculum'
2020: Loathe, 'I Let It In and It Took Everything'
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And the hard one too:

2017: Stone Sour, 'Hydrograd'
2018: Myles Kennedy, 'Year of the Tiger'
2019: Bring Me the Horizon, 'Amo'
2020: Deftones, 'Ohms'
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Updated yet again:

Metal list
https://loudwire.com/best-metal-album-e ... ince-1970/

2021 | Spiritbox | Eternal Blue
2022 | Lorna Shore | Pain Remains
2023 | Sleep Token | Take Me Back to Eden

Hard Rock list
https://loudwire.com/best-hard-rock-album-each-year/

2021 | Turnstile | Glow On
2022 | Bad Omens | The Death of Peace of Mind
2023 | Sevendust | Truth Killer

EDIT:
They actually added a brand new list to the two previous, "Best progressive rock + metal albums of each year since 1983". Here you go!

https://loudwire.com/best-progressive-r ... each-year/

1983 | IQ | Tales from the Lush Attic
1984 | Pallas | The Sentinel
1985 | Marillion | Misplaced Childhood
1986 | Fates Warning | Awaken the Guardian
1987 | Marillion | Clutching at Straws
1988 | Queensrÿche | Operation: Mindcrime
1989 | Voivod | Nothingface
1990 | Queensrÿche | Empire
1991 | Mr. Bungle | Mr. Bungle
1992 | Dream Theater | Images and Words
1993 | Cynic | Focus
1994 | Dream Theater | Awake
1995 | Echolyn | As the World
1996 | Cardiacs | Sing to God
1997 | Pain of Salvation | Entropia
1998 | Ayreon | Into the Electric Castle
1999 | Dream Theater | Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
2000 | Pain of Salvation | The Perfect Element Part I
2001 | Opeth | Blackwater Park
2002 | Porcupine Tree | In Absentia
2003 | The Mars Volta | De-Loused in the Comatorium
2004 | Ayreon | The Human Equation
2005 | Riverside | Second Life Syndrome
2006 | The Devin Townsend Band | Synchestra
2007 | Gazpacho | Night
2008 | Ayreon | 01011001
2009 | Mastodon | Crack the Skye
2010 | Anathema | We're Here Because We're Here
2011 | Unexpect | Fables of the Sleepless Empire
2012 | Between the Buried and Me | The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2013 | Steven Wilson | The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
2014 | Opeth | Pale Communion
2015 | Between the Buried and Me | Coma Ecliptic
2016 | The Dear Hunter | Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
2017 | Major Parkinson | Blackbox
2018 | Amorphis | Queen of Time
2019 | Devin Townsend | Empath
2020 | Haken | Virus
2021 | Between the Buried and Me | Colors II
2022 | Parius | The Signal Heard Throughout Space
2023 | Earthside | Let the Truth Speak

EDIT: They continue with a few more lists, they must feel like they've got something here. Oh well.

Best death metal albums of each year since 1985
https://loudwire.com/best-death-metal-album-each-year/

1985 | Possessed | Seven Churches
1986 | Possessed | Beyond the Gates
1987 | Death | Scream Bloody Gore
1988 | Death | Leprosy
1989 | Morbid Angel | Altars of Madness
1990 | Obituary | Cause of Death
1991 | Death | Human
1992 | Bolt Thrower | The IVth Crusade
1993 | Morbid Angel | Covenant
1994 | Cannibal Corpse | The Bleeding
1995 | Suffocation | Pierced from Within
1996 | Cryptopsy | None So Vile
1997 | Vader | Black to the Blind
1998 | Gorguts | Obscura
1999 | Opeth | Still Life
2000 | Children of Bodom | Follow the Reaper
2001 | Opeth | Blackwater Park
2002 | Bloodbath | Resurrection Through Carnage
2003 | Vital Remains | Dechristianize
2004 | Necrophagist | Epitaph
2005 | Opeth | Ghost Reveries
2006 | Amon Amarth | With Oden on Our Side
2007 | Akercocke | Antichrist
2008 | Septicflesh | Communion
2009 | Obscura | Cosmogenesis
2010 | Decrepit Birth | Polarity
2011 | Septicflesh | The Great Mass
2012 | Cattle Decapitation | Monolith of Inhumanity
2013 | Gorguts | Colored Sands
2014 | Insomnium | Shadows of the Dying Sun
2015 | Sarpanitum | Blessed Be My Brothers...
2016 | Interment | Scent of the Buried
2017 | Dying Fetus | Wrong One to Fuck With
2018 | Rivers of Nihil | Where Owls Know My Name
2019 | Blood Incantation | Hidden History of the Human Race
2020 | The Black Dahlia Murder | Verminous
2021 | Archspire | Bleed the Future
2022 | Undeath | It's Time... To Rise from the Grave
2023 | Sanguisugabogg | Homicidal Ecstasy

Best thrash metal albums of each year since 1983
https://loudwire.com/best-thrash-album-each-year/

1983 | Metallica | Kill 'Em All
1984 | Metallica | Ride the Lightning
1985 | Exodus | Bonded by Blood
1986 | Metallica | Master of Puppets
1987 | Testament | The Legacy
1988 | Slayer | South of Heaven
1989 | Sepultura | Beneath the Remains
1990 | Megadeth | Rust in Peace
1991 | Sepultura | Arise
1992 | Demolition Hammer | Epidemic of Violence
1993 | Coroner | Grin
1994 | Testament | Low
1995 | Tankard | The Tankard
1996 | Overkill | The Killing Kind
1997 | Deceased... | Fearless Undead Machines
1998 | Whiplash | Thrashback
1999 | Testament | The Gathering
2000 | Deceased... | Supernatural Addiction
2001 | Destruction | The Antichrist
2002 | Ghoul | We Came for the Dead!!!
2003 | Overkill | Killbox 13
2004 | Exodus | Tempo of the Damned
2005 | Municipal Waste | Hazardous Mutation
2006 | Sodom | Sodom
2007 | Municipal Waste | The Art of Partying
2008 | Bonded by Blood | Feed the Beast
2009 | Vektor | Black Future
2010 | Overkill | Ironbound
2011 | Anthrax | Worship Music
2012 | Overkill | The Electric Age
2013 | Iron Reagan | Worse Than Dead
2014 | Exodus | Blood In, Blood Out
2015 | Deathhammer | Evil Power
2016 | Anthrax | For All Kings
2017 | Power Trip | Nightmare Logic
2018 | Soulfly | Ritual
2019 | Overkill | The Wings of War
2020 | Sepultura | Quadra
2021 | Exodus | Persona Non Grata
2022 | Megadeth | The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
2023 | Metallica | 72 Seasons
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