Top 3 albums for each year of your life

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A sequel to the "favourite albums for each year of your life" thread, which 3 albums are your top 3 favourites. I'm 28, so i'll start first.

1984:
1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

1985:
1. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
2. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3. Helloween - Walls of Jericho

1986:
1. Slayer - Reign in Blood
2. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
3. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

1987:
1. King Diamond - Abigail
2. Anthrax - Among the Living
3. Napalm Death - Scum

1988:
1. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3. Voivod - Dimension Hatross

1989:
1. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
2. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
3. Godflesh - Streetcleaner

1990:
1. Deicide - Deicide
2. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
3. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

1991:
1. Death - Human
2. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
3. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

1992:
1. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
2. Dream Theater - Images and Words
3. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs

1993:
1. Paradise Lost - Icon
2. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
3. Carcass - Heartwork

1994:
1. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
2. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

1995:
1. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
2. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
3. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

1996:
1. Type O Negative - October Rust
2. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
3. Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood

1997:
1. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
2. Strapping Young Lad - City
3. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

1998:
1. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
2. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
3. Fear Factory - Obsolete

1999:
1. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
2. Opeth - Still Life
3. Katationa - Tonight's Decision

2000:
1. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2. Hammerfall - Renegade
3. Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

2001:
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Rammstein - Mutter
3. Iced Earth - Horror Show

2002:
1. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2. Agalloch - The Mantle
3. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

2003:
1. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
2. Akercocke - Choronzon
3. King Diamond - The Puppet Master

2004:
1. Mastodon - Leviathan
2. Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
3. My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light

2005:
1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
2. Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three
3. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

2006:
1. Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
2. Cannibal Corpse - Kill
3. Napalm Death - Smear Campaign

2007:
1. Down - Down III: Over the Under
2. Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
3. Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying

2008:
1. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
2. Enslaved - Vertebrae
3. Opeth - Watershed

2009:
1. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
3. Kylesa - Static Tensions

2010:
1. Tryptykon - Eparistera Daimones
2. Watain - Lawless Darkness
3. Ghost - Opus Anonymous

2011:
1. Mastodon - The Hunter
2. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
3. Machine Head - Unto the Locust

2012:
1. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
2. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light
3. Enslaved - RIITIIR

Phew.... that's that!

Nice to see Voivod getting a mention!
I'll return to this thread and do my list sometime tomorrow I'm sure.

Dude you are amazing. Can you consider ep's and compilations?

1985
1. SLAYER – Hell Awaits
2. CARNIVORE – self-titled
3. BATHORY – The Return…

1986:
1. VULCANO – Bloody Vengeance
2. SLAYER – Reign In Blood
3. SEPULTURA – Morbid Visions

1987:
1. BATHORY – Under the Sign of the Black Mark
2. SARCOFAGO – I.N.R.I
3. KREATOR – Terrible Certainty

1988:
1. IRON MAIDEN – Seventh Son Of a Seventh Son
2. NAPALM DEATH – From Enslavement to Obliteration
3. DANZIG – self-titled

1989:
1. MORBID ANGEL – Altars of Madness
2. SEPULTURA – Beneath the Remains
3. SARCOFAGO – Rotting

1990:
1. NOCTURNUS – The Key
2. DEATH – Spiritual Healing
3. BLASPHEMY – Fallen Angel of Doom

1991:
1. SADISTIK EXEKUTION – The Magus
2. ATHEIST – Unquestionable Presence
3. MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Loveless


1992:
1. BURZUM – self-titled
2. NOCTURNUS – Thresholds
3. SAMAEL – Blood Ritual

1993:
1. BEHERIT – Drawing Down the Moon
2. GORGUTS – The Erosion of Sanity
3. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – Siamese Dream

1994:
1. BURZUM – Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. EMPEROR – In the Nightside Eclipse
3. ENSLAVED – Frost

1995:
1. GRAVELAND – Thousand Swords
2. DEATH IN JUNE – Rose Clouds of Holocaust
3. MORTUARY DRAPE – All the Witches Dance

1996:
1. BURZUM – Filosofem
2. ILDJARN – Forest Poetry
3. TYPE O NEGATIVE – October Rust

1997:
1. NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Goat Horns
2. GRAVELAND – Following the Voice of Blood
3. ARCTURUS – La Masquerade Infernale

1998:
1. FROZEN SHADOWS – Dans Les Bras Des Immortales
2. GRAVELAND – Immortal Pride
3. JUDAS ISCARIOT – Distant In Solitary Night

1999:
1. MUTIILATION – Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul
2. NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Nechrist
3. NEVERMORE – Dreaming Neon Black

2000:
1. MOONBLOOD – Taste Our German Steel
2. MORTUARY DRAPE – Tolling 13 Knell
3. DEFTONES – White Pony

2001:
1. GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – Judeobeast Assassination
2. SATANIC WARMASTER – Strength And Honor
3. HATE FOREST – The Most Ancient Ones

2002:
1. AGALLOCH – The Mantle
2. PESTE NOIRE – Macabre Transcendance… demo
3. NILE - In Their Darkened Shrines

2003:
1. TYPE O NEGATIVE – Life Is Killing Me
2. DRUDKH – Forgotten Legends
3. ABSURD – Totenlieder

2004:
1. DRUDKH – Autumn Aurora
2. WOODS OF YPRES – Pursuit Of the Sun & Allure of the Earth
3. VELVET CACOON – Genevieve

2005:
1. GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – Kosherat
2. PRIMORDIAL – The Gathering Wilderness
3. BAPTISM – Morbid Wings of Sathanas

2006:
1. PESTE NOIRE – La Sanie des Siecles…
2. DARKTHRONE – The Cult Is Alive
3. DARK FOREST – Aurora Borealis

2007:
1. NOCTURNAL GRAVES – Satan’s Cross
2. GOATMOON – Finnish Steel Storm
3. PRIMORDIAL – To the Nameless Dead

2008:
1. DARKSPACE – III
2. MOTORHEAD – Motorizer
3. ABSURD/GRAND BELIAL’S KEY/SIGRBLOT split - Weltenfeind

2009:
1. BEHERIT – Engarm
2. NILE – Those Whom the Gods Detest
3. DRUDKH – Microcosmos

2010:
1. NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Voice of Steel
2. TEMNOZOR – Haunted Dreamscapes
3. DARKTHRONE – Circle the Wagons

2011:
1. PESTE NOIRE – L’Ordure a l’etat Pur
2. WOLFNACHT – Project Ordensburg
3. AMEBIX – Sonic Mass

2012:
1. KREATOR – Phantom Antichrist
2. DEFTONES – Koi No Yokan
3. WOODS OF YPRES – Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light

I find the hardest years to choose to be the early nineties.. Just so many good death and black metal albums to choose from in those years.

Come on fellow aspies, we need more lists!! I’m sure there’s some others out there who have too much time on their hands!

I think Meshuggah have influenced a new generation of bands, not that it's a bad thing. "Djent" is just a tag conceived by the media to make it sound "hip" to the media or scene kids.

I'd love to contribute to this, but my CD collection isn't nearly filled out enough yet.